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eff health salt, Comes into stock _ highly recommended. 76c. per bottle. ~~ : Milk of Magnesia ; £A 16 ounce bottle, put up by Parke Davis & Co. a : Sells at 50c. per bottle. Cameras, Kodaks and Films All kinds 3f them in stock. ; 'PRATT'S BABY CHICK FOOD AND LOUSE KILLER ~~ AND KRESO DISINFECTANT. MOIR'S CHOCOLATES ALWAYS IN STOCK. P. G. MORRISON Druggist and Stationer, - Port Perry. sanEEm) semzEREN 'The Peoples' Meat Market We sell everything you want in choice, clean, palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. "If you want it geod BERT MacGREGOR Will do the rest. Ring up Phone 72. . r Baby Chicks © This is the time of year to have your Chicks coming along. In order to produce good healthy, vigorous birds it is ~~ mecessary to have the proper kind of food, otherwise you PEPE Sar nee Bodh - Ea le y OF PORT PERRY AND VICINITY and its ENVIRO By REV. F. G. WEIR ; The only complaint I.have with the writer is that he is much too moder- ate in his statement of the wretched service rendered by the railway. The train service on this branch has always been abominable, and is now even worse, - (Continued from last week) : THE ISLAND k { Scugog Island is about ten miles long and two and a half .| miles wide. It contains approximately eleven thousand acres, the | most of which is under cultivation. i The name--Scugog--which is of course an Indian word is said to mean submerged land. Thus in "Canada Past, Present and Future" we read, "The Indian name Sc ugog or as the Indians pronounce it-Seu-a-gog- implies submerged or flooded land." * A certain Indian on being asked the meaning of the word said it signified muddy way. | What "One Interested" says of Toronto-Bort Perry time-table is cor- still with the eastern connections, For instance a passenger leaving Montreal early in the morning, carinot get to Port Perry the same day. Even from shorter distances he has to waste all day getting here. It seems to me that the local C. N. R. officials are dis- criminating against the interest of Port Perry and other points on this branch under the pretence that there is not sufficient business to give us a decent service when they are doing their best to drive away what busi- ness there is, to the C.P.R. and the buss lines. Myrtle on the C.P.R., seven miles away does at least half the passenger 'business of Port Pery, and only be- cause of the wretched service given by the C. N. R. Are the officials of our own Nation- al Railways, working against the "Public. Ownership" sentiment which they should foster instead of an- tagonize. "Another Interested." Semmes) £)() ww. PROVINCIAL 'ELECTION ~< Apparently there will ha a Provin- cial election in Ontario this year; but up to the time of going to press the date_has not been announced. The latest "unofficial" suggestion is_that the election will be held in October, instead of June; which has been the current rumor of late, It is claimed that Premier Ferguson has some business to finish before he cannot expect to get best results. Blatchford's Milk Mash "is especially prepared to make chicks grow fast and keep. them in excellent health. We have it, "We also have Baby Chick Scratch feed and Laying Meal ; for your hens. If you have never tried any of above do so : "this year and observe the results. You will more than be = All kinds of Farm and Garden Seeds, Groceries, Boots . and Shoes and Crockery. 3 . oa . We will be pleased to serve you. a J. F. McCLINTOCK PORT PERRY, ONT. Er i EE ---- o 3 0g WE SERVE TO PLEASE Try our Bread, Buns and Confection- Raa ery and you will be pleased. X © E. H. GERROW & SON. ' Bakers and Confectioners, Port Perry. pointment of a. Minister of Lands and Forests, possibly a Minister of Edu- cation, and the settlement of a con- tract between the Hydro Power Com- mission and the International Paper Company. Died After Accident. On Saturday morning of last week, Douglas Beacock in his wagon along the side- walk at Myrtle, The little fellow was only six years of age, 'and he lost control of his wagon and tumbled into the ditch, the wagon ond storage battery falling after him. The child struck his head in the fall, resulting in concussion of the brain. He was taken home, and given medical attention, and that evening was removed to Oshawa Hospital, where, Rn in spite of every effort to save his life, he died on Monday. : Douglas was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bea-| cock, and the family made their home with Mr. and Mrs, J. E. Beacock. _ f|recently took honors in his 3 Introductory Piano examin- This young boy was ex- ceptionally bright, and quite tion, held under direction of {the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He was the young- child who ever passed examination in Ontario. rect in every way, and itis a various spellings of the word. In a certain place it appears goes to the country, including the ap-| was taking a storage battery) the ice now owned | £| and occupied by Mrs. Adams. Mr. Rodman is going to move Mi: | oxen to the jumper for that purpose. A bundle of hay---dinner Dri espretations. 13 not important enough-to dwell upon. : { The different interpretations are many times outnumbered by as Schooag, anfl again in another place as Eschiugog. Somebody writing to thé Christian Guardian in 1830, on the question of abandoning certdin mission stations asks, "Shall we abandon Eschiugog?" In the gradual contraction of the word shown in the various 'spellings we see reflected the tendency of the times, Where people found time in the course of the days work to walk fifteen or twenty miles on an errand they took lots of time and spelled it Schooguag ; later when they began to feel something of one letter do the work of two and wrote Schoogog: then when time began to be at a premium they made still another save by writing Schugog; at last when "a little more speed" became the slogan a further save was made by writing Scugog, and thus it has remained until the present: when the process of abbreviation has reached the place where the Scu is left off and it is written Gog, it will be merely keeping pace with an age that is all a Gog. | A hundred years ago our fathers could walk ten miles to post a letter, now we read of a certain telephone exchange where the operators are equipped with roller skates to negotiate the distance between certain points in the building about thirty or forty feet apart, making a save, it is claimed, of a fraction of a minute on each trip. But-to return tothe Island; It was surveyed in 1816 by Major Wilmott. We are so much accustomed to conditions as they are that it isdiffieult foi us to fornt any victure of conditions as they were, or imagine the Island as it was when Major Wilmott first visited it. We kiow it was clothed with forest and that there were nc roads, or clearings, nor any other marks-of civilization: The Indians had roamed and hunted all over it, apparently, for pipes and various implements such as the Indians made and used have been found in many places some of which were evidently special camping grounds. It is claimed at present, that the Island is a very healthy spol. It was not always so. In 1847 the Missionary to the Indians in his annual report says "The -island upon, which the mission is established continues unhealthy." The next year the Mission ary's health broke down and he was forced to leave. The first white settler on the Island is said to have heen Joseph Graxton. According to a certain Government Report the first settler came in 1834. There were settlers in Reach several stood when we consider that there was a that time no bridge con- necting it with the main land and horses and cattle and all luggage had to be transferred in a scow. Peoplé would hesitate to take up land whére they would have t8 contend with such difficulties and where at certain seasons they would be isolated altogether; espetially when there was plenty of Tand 'in neighboring fown- ships. : Among the earliest settlers were Joseph Reader and his six sons, Grosvenor Pickle, Joseph and John Thompson, Robert Walker, Mr. Gamble, Will Mossworth, Steven Scoville, Henry Cole, William Burr, and Sarah Ann Burr. About 1843 others came including Asa Burke, Sam Beason, Joseph Schell, Joseph Thorne, William Taylor, Joseph Conklin, William Tenike, Charles Harper, Charles Nesbitt; and. about 1845 Joel Aldred, the Sweet- man family including nine sons and others; and still later the Hoods, 'Fralicks, Jacksons and- Grahams. Joseph Gould in his autobiography speaks of Mr. Chas. Nesbitt as being the first settler on the Island, but that can-hardly be correct for-itis-euitey; certain that Mr. Nesbitt came:in 1843, and it is also quite certair that there were settlers on the Island before that time. In 1847 the missionary to the Indians reported that there were then one hundred white persons on the Island. Tt is not likely that there would be such a growth of population in the first four years of settlement. : When Mr. Nesbitt took a lot of two hundred and fifty acres at the extreme north end of the island there was no road through the Township and he had to bring his outfit and. supplies by boat. He came as young man, made a. clearing and put up a log shanty on the east side of where the road is now. That was in 1843. The following year he married Rebecca Stewart of King Township and the young couple of, pioneers began -housekeeping in the log} shanty. Some time later the shanty was burned, then Mr. Nes- bitt built the house that still stands on the west side of the road and is occupied-at present by Russell Graham---a grandson. Mr. Nesbitt's first tax bill was fifty cents, and he had to walk all the way to Bowmanville to pay it; but he actually paid only twenty-five cents for he got half the amount back to buy his dinner. : Mr. Joel Aldred came to spy out the land in 1844. The im- pression received must have been favorable for the next year he | came and settled. "He brought his luggage to-the stand by means of a raft landing at a place then known as Smith's Landing, but now. Prentice's Landing." Mr. William Rodman--the father of Mr. Isaac Rodman now living--moved his stuff from the landing to the place where he had chosen to settle, with a yoke of oxen. We can imagine ourselves over eighty years ago, looking on while the gradual possession of the land is being accomplished. Mr. Nesbitt after a very busy day is standing on the shore among his stuff that he has just unloaded from the old.scow. The scene is changed a log shanty stands in a little clearing, the smoke from its open fire place curling up above the tree-tops while in the door- way stands a young bride who is making her first survey of the spot in the woods that is now her home. Again the scene is changed on the Reach shore, Mr. Aldred has Toaded all his worldly goods upon a raft and now he is piloting his raft Crusoe-like to- ward a certain point on the Scugog Shore, The séene shifts te ] e of Mr. Rodman who lived then on the place now owned g Aldred's things from the landing and he has hitched his-yoke of for the oxen--has been fastened to the yoke and now he is guid- NS The actual difference between these two) the urgency of things they effected a save in time by making | «eww years before there were dany on the Island and this is easily under» | ° When Trading Outside Canada OUR transactions embracing ° trade with foreign countries, will be expedited by enlisting Rtn: Hom thin > i To ep ---------- the services of the foreign exchange department of the Standard Bank. Our connections extend to all points si-ecommeree-throughout the civilized world. Our local manager ¢an keep you posted regarding the rapidly fluctuating values of foreign monies and quote moderate rates for the transfer of funds to or from places outside of Canada; OF CANADA " PORT PERRY BRANCH--H. G. Hutcheson, Manager B hes also at Black I, Little Britain, Nestleton Station, Sunder! the raft has been safely navigated across the lake, the oxen have been successfully guided through the bush and hardy pioneers greet each other on the shore. The jumper is loaded and the first trip is begun to the chosen spot on the hill in that locality now known as the Centre. Thus the business of getting settled went on. In like manner Mr, Sweetman and his nine sons---James, Patrick, John, Nicholas, Edward, Michael, Charles, William and Dan--settled near a little creek about a mile north of Mr. Aldred at the. place where Mr. Geo. Sweetman ives al" présent. There was much opportunity of obeying the injunction of the Apostle to bear one another's burdens, in those days, Neighbor- liness was a greatblessing to-people--who were-beset-by-many handicaps. Many a settler had reason to be thankful for the aid of -M¥, Rodman's yoke .of oxen especially when drawing logs to build his house. Some in one way and some in another according to their advantages helped their new neighbors to make a be- ginning, ; Mr. Aldred stood the position of the him and in mistake put in the first vear"s work on Lot 5. Gradually the settlers came in and put up their humble dwellings. © Around 1845 a person going up the lake would have seen not the wide fields, and hi®dings standing out as at present, but we a IT We Tye = & settled on lot 4, in concession 10, but he misunder- fie line between his lot and the one next "Wreaths Sent up, in Showing themselve of Smoke , from among the trees!" brave men 'and women were making homes for sand their chitdren, working as long as there was light, tosneh-nbledareas-their- means-wotld-afford--or-- ocured in a new country, finding little variety apart from a days' work, a night's rest, a visit from a neighbor, or an sional trip to the town, but finding as much real happiness, no t, as we who live in such a different world, surrounded by so more advantages, It was in 1843 that the Indians came from Balsam Lake to make a-permanent home on -Scugog Island. ----In-1847; according to the Missionary's report, the Indian' population wassixty -four. In 1866 the band numbered about eight hundred; the ratepayers The real estate at that time amounted to setbimedeown s could be | NY: 5081, and there were on the Island 239 horses, 660 cattle, 1030 sheep, 244 hogs and 33-dogs. (To be continued.) SOUTH. ONTARIO FOOTBALL Green River at Claremont ASSOCIATION von yer n June 24--Pickering at Cherrywood Aug. 12--Cherrywood at Pickering Aug. 14 ~Goodwood at Brooklin Brooklin. and. Claremont to play at Brooklin on May 24th for the Brook- Hn Fade Cup. Tt was algo decided that Cl the closing date for transfer of play- evs would be July 15th. 2 EEOEIRIELIN EL ee Schedule of 1926 Engaged an Architect The Port Perry Board of Ashburn at Cherrywood Claremont atl Goodwoed Green River at Brooklin. May 20-~Pickerving at Ashburn Brooklin at Claremont one hundred and five. $97,149 and personal property to $5000. In 1869 real estate nounted to $99,960, and personal property $6,600; acres cleared . South Ontario Football Association | June 26--Brooklin at Goodwood held meeting in Town Hall, Brooklin, Ashburn at Claremont Monday Dwening, May 10th, when |July 3---Cherrywood at Ashburn del from all over the district Goodwood at Claremont were present. The schedule for 1926 . Jrooklin at Green River wa firmed at this meeting. Six | July 8---Ashburn at Pickering class A reierees from Toronto werel. 10---Claremont at Brooklin. secured to officiate in this League for Green River at Cherrywood the season. The following teams [July 15-~Pickering at Claremont entered for Ontario and Cannaught { July 17--Goodwood at Green River. Cup competition Oshawa, General Brooklin at Ashburn Motors, Pickering, Gli ,.Green [July 22--Green River at Pickering a... River, Cherrywood and Goodwood. uly 24---Claremont at Cherrywood On the draw the following teams Ashburn at Goodwood were drawn to play in first round. | July 31--Goodwood at Pickering a May 27th General Motors at Clare-| Brooklin 'at Cherrywood ~~ HEE May 26, Pickering at Cherry- Green River at Ashburn wood. May 25, Green River at Good- | Aug. T--Pickering at Brooklin wood. Cherrywood at Goodwood. This association gave permission to Claremont at Green River Tawemont at Ashburn. - Education have engaged Mr. Cherrywood at Green River Green REN 1 John T. Hornsby, Lindsoy, May 29-~Claremont at Pickering hs arehi f, Green River at Goodwood {4S arc itect for the new Ashburn at Brooklin school. - : June 5--Cherrywood at Claremont A number of trustees are op Pickering at Green River Goodwood: al Ashburn... = June 10---Pickering at Goodwood ~~ JSF a det June 12: Cherrywood at Brooklin | ton, with a view to Ashburn at Green: Riven what extent this t building will meet ing the beasts past this bog, around that windfall, through the od of tall timber where there is neither road nor trail. Now June 17-~Brooklin-at. Pickering «.«: June 19--Goodwood at Cherrywsod 1of Port Perry