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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES 'Vol, 1. No. 45. ORONO, ONT., THURSDAY, NOV. 18 1957. Subscription, $1.25 Per Year. Government Should Pay More Of School Taxes Complete History Of Shiloh United Church] Cost $600 To Build 6 BAND MEETING Church Was Built In 1861 j^And Dedicated On June 15th, 1862 The following article was donated to the Guano Weekly Times on the history of Shiloh Church from the time it was built, for which the editor editor takes this opportunity to thank, the donor for her trouble in collectng all the facts pertaining to the Church. In I860 the people of this Shiloh district decided to Intild a church in which to worship God. A subscription was circulated in the winter of 1860-61 for the building of a Wesley Wesley Methodist church on Lot - No. 5 in the Fifth Concession of the Township Township of Clarke. A generous response was giiven and as a result a church was built. The land was donated by Mr.. Thomas Ray and the land! for the shed by Mr. George Ray. The cost was $600.00. Mr. David Ray was 1 the contractor. During the erection erection of this church, or shortly after, some discussion! arose in regard to a name for this new Wesleyan church. Finally the name "Shiloh" was given it by David Gordon. Shiloh was on the Newcastle circuit and. on November November 4th, 1:861, a Quarterly Board meeting was ' held at Newcastle. It was there resolved that the following be appointed trustees : George Ray, Thomas Mulligan, David Gordon, Patrick I .a very, Ih.vjd Ray. W. II. Ra.v and Charles Wragg. Shiloh was built in 1861 and dedicated dedicated oh June 16th, 1862. On that -day there were three services, the morning and afternoon services were held in a grove, a little east of the church. Rev. Coleman preached in the morning and Rev, Bakowe'l preached in the afternoon from John 3:16, and Rev. McDorma preached in the new building at night. This was the first sermon preached in Shiloh, and his text was "Great is the Mystery Mystery of Godliness," 1st Timothy 3:16. This text, was'handled in a masterly way by the above preacher. After this Rev. Dr, Aylesworth, assisted by Rev. McCann, took charge of the church. In a week or so Dr. Ayiesworth Ayiesworth was removed by conference to take charge of special extension work, and 1 his place was filled by Rev. Brock. : In the middle of October, 1862, special services were held in the new church for about nine weeks. These services were conducted by Brock and McCann. During these services sixty -persons were converted to the faith and fifty-five uni ted with the church. IThe church had plastered plastered walls with high base boards, the (Continued on page four) The Midland: Regmentul Band held their annual meeting in the Armouries, Armouries, Orono, on Tuesday evening of Last week, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President -- A. J. Tamltilyn. Vice-President ~ Charlie Gay. Secretary - Treasurer -- Horace Rest. Attendance Officer -- Neil Wood. Band Ma-sater -- M. J. Tamblyn. Auditors -- Art Saunders and Gordon Gordon Power. W. A MEETING The monthly meeting of the Woman's Woman's Association of Park Street Church was held! Tuesday afternoon with the president. in the chair. -Mrs. O-siterhout read a very interesting interesting letter from the drought area in. Saskatchewan, showing how much the people in lire -West appreciated the help given! them. The meeting was mainly given over to settling up the expenses after after the goose dinner, ordering bills paid, etc. The gross receipts of the dinner totalled $280.20. The, W. A. are donating $25.00 to the Woman's Missionary Society for memorial for Mrs. (Rev.) Stirling; Stirling; $50.00 to the Missionary and Maintenance' Fund and $.1.00.00 to the Church Board. COWANVILLE Messrs. W. -and) J. Hail visited Mr. Charlie McNeil last week. Mr. Beverly Henderson is visiting a few days! with friends in Peterboro. Mr. and' Mrs. Ivan Farrow visited Mr and Mrs. Erwin Farrow on 'Sunday. 'Sunday. Misses Viola, Ada and Dorothy Hollingsworth visited at their home over the week-end. Mr. arid Mrs. McKenzie from Dtterson visited Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stanley Porteous on Sunday. We are all sorry to report that Mrs. J. Biurley has left the community and gone to Newton ville to live, Mr. and 'Mrs. M. Irwin and two children, of Zion, visited 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cross!ey on Sunday. There was a very good turn out to hear Rev. R. M. Patterson who preached a wonderful sermon on Sunday Sunday afternoon in Clarke Church. Ten Chief Causes For Irregularity At School The Trustees and Ratepayers held their annual .meeting in Orono town hall on Friday, November 12 th, The guest speaker for the afternoon session was Mr, Keefe, Chief Attendance Attendance Officer for the Province. 'He dealt with the ten chief causes of losses due to irregular attendance (1) illness; (2) home help, lawful ■arid unlawful ; (8) parental neglec t ; (4) physical obstacles, i.c., distance, weather, etc. ; (5) truancy, an almost obsolete cause ; (6) privation, lack of food,, clothing; (7) school closed, municipal holidays; (8) death of school age chikltren. He stressed the fact that the grant for attendance drops when, School- isi-closed. In cases, of illness 30 per cent, of illness is duo to respiratory diseases, such as common cold, sore throat; 20 per cent, contagious diseases, measles, chicken pox; 5 h» 6 per cent, digestive digestive irregularities; 5 per cent, tooth ache, eye and ear trouble. Most schools could stand improving along such lines as, ventilation, decorating, drinking and washing facilities, adequate adequate play facilities, swing, ring i*oun«l swings, slides, etc. Col. Snider then dealt at some length with the "New Curriculum." Mr. Campbell, Secretary -of the Provincial _ Trustees' Association, stated that the OnJtario Edhcational System is the only one where' trustees and teachers ; are working . together. The two ■ main prinicples we're striving striving for are : (1) Equal education for all children; (2) government to bear' greater proportion of cost. ■ Teachers are "key" to the New Course of studies, ; ; 1 : Fifth form : classes)' will have! to have manual training and houisesold ■ science. If -this is to be compulsory then the government should bear a large part of transportation cost. Fifteen Pupils From Co. Compete At Speaking Contest Friday Evening DISTRICT DEPUTY.NIGHT Rt. Wor. B-ro. -0. Cannon, D.D.C. M., of Ontario District, made bis official official visit to Oron-o Lodge, No. 325 A.F. & A.M., on 1 Thursday evening. A good' turnout of brethren from Durham Lodge, Newcastle, and the Oshawa Lodges was present. At the close of the lodge, a banquet was held in the town ball. The ladies of the Anglican Church catered for the banquet. The programme included a dance by Miss Adele Morton and Mr. T. Lewis, two solos by Mrs, N. Winters (formerly .Miss E. Allen), a piano selection by Miss- Eileen Riddell. KENDAL W. I. GIVEN ROOM FOR MEETINGS An enjoyable and instructive afternoon afternoon was spent on Thursday, November November 11th, when the Kendal Women's Women's Institute gathered at the home of the President, Mrs. Roy Mercer. The roll call "A book I have read," brought many interesting books to our notice. ft was decided to accept Mr. B. 1 follaad's - offer ■ of the use of the front, of his shop for an Institute lending! library and meeting place. The next,-meeting is to be held there on December 9th, at 2-.30 1 , The roll call is to be "A verse from a Christinas Christinas card." Misses Hilda Rowland, Bernice Milligan and Beatrice Thompson; gave us their interesting and instructive instructive demonstration . on "close closets," -showing how every article from hat to shoe can be compactly placed away, yet ready at hand when needed, thus keeping the bedroom neat and tidy. The demonstration was well worth seeing, Mrs. McKenna was, winner in the bean contest, after which lunch was served. Twenty-six ladies were pres- - cm. The meeting was brought to a close by singing "G-od Save the King;" o- -'See thé ! Eckardt Bros. Swiss- Bell Ringers in the Town Hall, Orono, Wednesday, November 24th. CHURCH, CASH AND CHRISTIANITY After reading several church reports reports lately the editor of the ■■ Calling- wood Enterprise Bulletin feels- impelled impelled to ask the question: "Are Church members -Christians." He admits admits that one cannot judge a man's Christianity by the amount he gives to the church, as is well illustrated in the Parable of the widow's mite. "On the other hand," writes Editor David Williams, "when a fairly well- fixed family give- an average of five cents a Sunday to the upkeep of the church as many families do) then there is something wrong." "If you belkmg to a church which publishes a list of its subscribers," says the Col ling wood editor, "you can prove for yourself that families who seem to have money -enough for other things don't seem to feel any responsibility for keeping up the church. You will find that more than one family of your acquaintance probably did not give more than $2.60 toward, the upkeep of the building, ' the payment- of the preach- erl-s salary, the heating, lighting and other expenses, the music and the community activities. A. much larger number probably paid less than $5.20 or ten cents a -Sunday for these purposes. purposes. They pay a quarter to see a game of almost any kind and if the whole family attends, the total is .several times that much, yet - a nickel or a dime is the limit for the family on'S'undày. One would think- that any mail who was a Christian -would feel that jt was worth gt least .a quarter a week to have the church kept alive jn his community, not .only for himself himself but for his children. Yet if you think that a majority, of. -church, iriem-l iber-a give more tha-n- $13.00 a year for the upkeep of the chur-ch, you are probably due for a sad awakening." THIRTEEN TABLES AT ORANGE CARD PARTY /Some scores- soared high while others went the reverse at the first euchre and -five hundred evening of the season, held, in the Orange Lodge rooms, Orono, Monday evening. Thirteen tables were in progress, while friendly sociable games were enjoyed by all present, No confusion was made in changing tables due to the splendid order kept by Mr. Hamm, Mr. Lowery and Mr. Riddel], Riddel], At the conclusion of the evening evening coffee, sandwiches arid cake were served. The prize winners for the evening wore as ful!<nv>: In 500--win r:ing lady, .Mrs. L. Lowery, pink glass sandwich tray; winning ge-n-t, Mr. F. W. Bowen, a deck of cords ; cniiso n- tion prizes' were won by Mrs. O. Cooper and Mr. O. Chapman. In euchre : Winning lady--Mrs. W, E, Davey, pink glass bowl; winning gent, Mr. H. Murray, deck. of cards ; consolation prizes were won. by Mrs. Mrs. Ed. Dean and Mr Chas. Brown. Be: sure to attend the next card game which will be held sometime in December. December. 75 YEARS OLD AND STILL GOING STRONG Mr. Orme G a tushy celebrated his 74th birthday on Wednesday last. Orme s-ays lie was never married, never proposed to a woman, was never accepted, and never expected to be accepted,. Every year lie always always makes a resolution, and this year he ha-s- resolved "to speak good of everyone," He says, this is the hardest resolution he has ever .made, arid does not know whether h-e can keep it or not. Orme is in, the best of Real tin weighs over the -2-00 1 pound mark, is a great baseball fan. and promoter, arid likes nothing better than to take his fishing outfit and walk along the trout streams or go duck hunting, . We wish for him many more happy birthdays. ---- O--! --- Mr. Herb. Murray, of th-e Bowman- ville Legion, and who had charge of the poppy sale in- Orono on Remembrance Remembrance Day, wish to thank all those who purchased poppies to help the Legion carry .out their work among the needy. A list of the six highest point winners winners in the six Rural School Fairs who received the Eaton Trophies- and Books appear below. In some eases the pupil with the highest points and who had already won the Eaton. Trophy, lie or she, as the -ease may be, was! only entitled to the second, or third prize. In case of a tie the pupil with the largest number of first p-rizes has been declared declared the winner. In other words' quality and not quantity of exhibits is given- the preference. ' ' .. . ORONO --Ist, Eiicon Todd, ■ S,ig. No l'i--ff> pts ; 2nd, Anna Staples, §1S, No. 12;--42! pis ; 3rd, Carol Staples, ISJS. No. 12--41 pts. ' NiEWHStLE - Id, S'tan Brown S.-S,! No; 2^71 .pts ; 2nd, Jean Rob-: inson, : .S;iS!, No. 3--56 pis ; 3rd. Fran eis ,Jose,S.-S. Nov. 3ri-52 ! pts; - CARTWRIGHT - 1st, Kathleen. Wright, S..S. No. 2--4)6 pts ; 2nd. Howard Fortier, iSJS. No. 2--66 pts ; O _____ Raymond Gilmour, Crooked Creek, Represents County At Brighton Competing against fourteen other candidates, Raymond Gihnour, of Crooked Creek, won the shield and will represent Durham County at the District S-pea-king Contest which will be hold at Brighton Friday evening, the winner from that contest will -compete against the province at the O.E.A, Convention at Toronto -in Easter week. He was also presented wth a miniature -shield to hold as his own, the other speakers, were presented presented with a book. Out of the fifteen, fifteen, participants, eleven were girls, which goes' to prove that the girls are forging aliea-d of the boys in oratory. oratory. Russell -Osborne, president 1 of Durham -County Trustees' and Ratepayers' Ratepayers' Association, acted as chairman, chairman, and spoke a few words to the large gathering present. He said that the parents: should take more interest interest in these public speaking contests. contests. We are building up a splendid foundation, working from the' ground upward, and have , : pad.e more progress progress this year than . ever before.' He also thanked, the directors for their splendid support given him, to make these contests a success. He then called called the following contestants to the platform : No. 1--■'Margaret- Bèttriëtt, 'Port Hope--"Pioneer Life in Our Country." Country." No. 2---Patsy Clarke, - Bowman-villa --"Why I am Proud to be a Canadian." Canadian." ; -No. 3--(Shirley Porter, Orono -- "Niagara Falls." No. 4-- Audrey Wood, Miilforook-- "The Princess Eliza-beth." No. 5--Verna McNally--"My Most Interesting. Trip." No. 6--Not Present. No. 7---Helen Cox, Darlington --■ Princess' Elizabeth." No; 8--Barbara Tick ell. Port Hope --"My Most Wonderful Dream." No. 9--Ruth Hutchison, Bowman- ville--"My Most Interesting Trip." No. 10 -- Raymond Gilmour, Crooked Creek---"Sports in our Rural Community." No, 11--iNan Fall is, -Cavan -- "-Some of the Thieves- that Rob the Farmer." No.12 -- Farnicombe T.eOresley -- "Manufacturing of Paper." No. 13--Robert -Sheffield, Caesura --"King Geor-ge VI." 3rd, Merrill Van Camp, S.-S. No. 2 --61 pte. ENNISKILLEN -- 1st, Jean Knapp, SjS. No. 17--78 pts; 2nd, Gordon S-lemon. SjS. No. 21--63 pts ; 3rd, Marie Ashton, S.-S. No. 21--49 p-te, HAMPTON -- 1st, Muriel -Smith, SjS. No. 19---51 pte ; 2nd, Jerry Mill- son, S.-S. No. 14--47 pts ; 3rd, Bruce Taylor, SjS. No. 19--45 p-t-s. MAPL-E -GROVE--1st, Catherine Miritb-, iS.lS. No; 8--62 pts; 2nd, John Morton, S.-S. No. 6--52 pte; 3rd, Ed. liivett, S.-S. No.' 4---45! ptfc ; 'Six highest. point winner- --1st, Kathleen Wright, S.IS. No. 2, Cartwright- Cartwright- -96 pte; 2nd. Jean Knapp, -S.-S, No.; 17, Darlington--78 pts ; '3rd, ' jS-tanley Brown, S.iSl. No. 2, Clarke--72 pts ; 4th, Howard For- dier, SjS. No, 2, Cartwright--6i; pts ; '5th. Gordon Slcmon, -S.-S. No, 21, Darlington,--63, pts ; ! 6 th, Catherine Min to, ISjS.- No. 8, Darlington--62 pts. No. 14--Lloyd Kellogg, Welcome-- (Continued on page four) Eaton Trophies Presented To Successful Students