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At P. G.;MORRISON's DRUG STORE, PORT PERRY. BREEN ASEAN RENEE RE TEPER NER EE EAR RENE The Peoples' Meat Market We sell everything you want in choice, clean, ~ palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. Fad If you want it geod : ~ % BERT MacGREGOR Will do the rest. Ring up Phone 72. Pe -- OQ DROWNED IN LAKE SCUGOG. News was received on Wednesday evening that Mr. George Dean, of 116 South Drive, Toronto, had been drowned in the reserve at the i end of Lake Scugog while duck hunt-| | ing. It appears that the members of | the party with whom Mr, Pean was out had separated in the big marsh, {and that he was alone at the time of | the accident, the. body being found | beside the overturned boat. : | The late Mr. Dean was 26 years of age and a native of {berdeen, Scot- 'land. Coming to Canada about two | years ago, he was married in July, 1925, to Miss 'Phyllis Osler, daughter of F. G. Osler, of Osler and Ham- , mond, stock 'brokers. Deceased was | with the Camadian Mortgage Invest- ~ment Company. Before coming to Canada he was a practicing barrister. He was a graduate of Oxford Uni- versity and sewed as an officer in the i British Army during the war. = me HO ross | YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONFERENCE At the Young People's Conference held at Napanee last week, Mr, Jos. Baird and Miss Norma Moray were the delegates from Port Perry. The following resolution was pass- ed unanimously: After the devotional exercises in the afternoon the Resolutions Com- mittee brought in the following reso- lution with respect to the present temperance situation, which was | | % vention, "We, the representatives of the Young People's Societies of the' Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Blatehford's Laying Meal - bo ~This-is the time of the year you should be getting your hens in condition to fill the egg baskt when prices are high. Blatch- ford's' Laying Meal will help you wonder- fully. Try it! We also have Oyster Shell and Grit which are just as necessary as other feed if you are to get best results. "A full line of Groceries, Boots & Shoes, -, ~Rubbers and Overshoes, We also buy Clover Seed of all kinds. Bring' in a sample and get our quotations. J. F. McCLINTOCK PORT PERRY, ONT. - Church in Convention assembled at Napanee, representing twenty-two electoral constituencies in the Pro- vince of Ontario, do hereby place on record: First, our most earnest con- viction that the present O. T. A. which is the 'most advanced temper- ance legislation this provinee has ever had, should be maintained, strength- ened and enforced, and that we record our intense opposition to the Govern- ment control (sale) policy proposed by Premier of the Province, as we are of the opinion that this policy has proved a failure in the provintes where it has been tried. Second, we do deeply resent the slander upon the younger people of today whom we claim to represent, and with whose habits and life we are therefore most familiar, that the Premier of this province has made when he speaks upon public platforms of the whole- sale "disrespect for the present law, and the carrying of hip flasks and the' «drinking of intoxicating lignor, which he claims is prevalent amongst the mn WE SERVE TO PLEASE ery and you will be pleased. - x Try our Bread, Buns and Confeetion. x youth today. 3 tee 0 Oe The election of officers resulted as follows: He President--Mr. Holton, Belleville, Vice Pres.--Mr. McKenzie, Belleville, | Sec'y--Mr. McFarlane, Belleville. Tréas.~=Mr. Jos, Baird, Port Perry. Last Saturday morning Mrs. Oliver | Williams was apparently in good 'health. She went out in the garden 4 toget some vegetables, and was gone] for some time, and was found lying ~~ {on the ground by the school teacher, | who was boarding with Mrs. Wil- ~ liams. She secured the assistance of ~ Mrs. Sweetman. The body was warm | When found, but life was extinct. Medical examination showed that death had been due to apoplexy. - ° We sincérely regret this sudden "death of a most eStimable man and nies sympathy with the bereaved passed by standing vote of the Con-{. | Coun Died Saddenly. I. i (Continued from last week.) a ON TO OTTAWA "Leaving Kingston while the city had scarcely roused itself for the work of the day, we started for Gananoque, where we breakfasted. From there we motored through to Prescott turning north about three miles east of the City. The road was good all the way--some sixty miles. In fact one is amazed not so much at the bad roads as the almost endless mileage of good In Ottawa, which we wrote up after our last year's trip, we visited the | League of Nations Headquarters, 279 Wellington St., and were courteously received. Interesting facts are always available at headquarters of the League of Nations and it is worthy of note that fifty-five out of the sixty-three nations of the world have signed the following pledge: . : In order to promote international co-operation, and to achieve inter- national peace and security, "By acceptance of the obligation not to resort to war; i "By the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations; "By the firm establishment of the understandings of international law: as to the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and "By the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another; agree to the Covenant of the League of Nations." A brief call upon Mr, John Stiles, of the Boy Scouts Association was appreciated by the writer, as it was a renewal of old friendship. We visited two schools while at Ottawa--one at Westboro, a High School; and the Britannia Heights 'consolidated school. At Westboro, a convention of trustees was held at which two addresses were given dealing with modern' educational tendencies, which might be summarized as follows: 1. Rendering secondary education available for all children_ within spf of secondary schools. ; 2. Study courses are becoming more practical. 3. The movement to bring first year university work to the High Schools of the smaller centres. 4. A higher standard being required of teachers. cates are now being demanded in leading Canadian Cities. s 5. Local surveys of educational conditions, which would be greatly assisted by the establishment of Township School Boards, 6. The Junior High Schools; Fifth Classes in Public Schools to care for scholars from 12 to 15. : 7. The care of children who do not do well in regular school courses, First class certifi- Sometimes these scholars prove to be very brilliant when the course of study is adapted to their particular type of mentality. 8. Hot lunches and supervised noon hours. The community interest is being awakened by Trustees' Associations and Home and School Clubs. 9. The teaching of religious principles is being overlooked in too many cases. This phase of education is essential; but does not include creeds; which should not be taught in the secular schools. At Britannia Heights we found a very fine® Consolidated school. As at Wellington it looked as though less money could have been spent, and yet have secured adequate and suitable building and equipment. One excellent feature in this school was the wood working department. Here every Saturday morning the boys eagerly take manual training lessons. So popular is this department that some of the high school boys from Westboro return to this former school and take manual training on Saturday as an extra. ; % Our stay in and about Ottawa was somewhat brief, and early Friday morning we were spinning along that fine stretch of road between Ottawa and Kemptville, at which latter place a convention of School Trustees was being held for the Eastern Counties. At this convention the two leading addresses were given by Mr, V. K. Greer, Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools for Ontario; and President Reynolds of the O. A. C., Guelph. 3 Mr, Greer spoke of the value of fifth class and Continuation School work in Public Schools, and urged trustees to send for Pamphlets Nos. 56 and 66a if at all interested in this subject, which is becoming very important for pupils from 14 to 16 years of age, who are compelled to go to school by the Adolescent School Attendance Act, and for whom but very poor provision has been made in the average Public School. Such classes can be established with but slight cost to the community, Mr. Greer said. That is to say after the grants from the Government, the ity. and the Township have been received, there is bup little tax locally. The following are the grants: Provincial grant of $180 for the fifth class, where an extra teacher is engaged. This grant is duplicated by the County, making $360 in all. Then there is a $250 grant from the Govern- ment for teacher's salary, and the Township Council may be required to provide $350, a total of $860, leaving only $50 or so to be made up locally. ~~ Referring to schools with a small attendance, which might wisely be closed 'temporarily, Mr. Greer, suggested that the School Board continue to function even though the school were closed, so that the. building might be | cared for, and re-opened when the school population warranted such action, He stated that in some counties as high as $30,000 could be saved annually by closing small schools. : : fo . President: Reynolds said that rural intelligence is not deteriorating; but modern requirements have brought out the fact. This point" was verified by the increased farm output with a smaller rural population. For i oo 20 years ago. there were 800,000 cows in the Province. Today there are + 1 1,800,000, and they are being milked by 70,000 less people than milked the "smaller number of cows. ~~ Some farmers profess to despise scientific agriculture; but the faét is that agricultural teaching is Retting through. Proper ideas are spreading nd being absorbed without question as to their sources; and the agricultural | schools and representatives are raising, the standard of farming by constant example and free information. - st y Principal Reynolds did not look for a larger rural population; but rather for better conditions for-those who remain on the farm. | He distinguished between rural education and agricultural education. The first trained. people to live happily and prosperously in the country. : 4 3 5 Yi 7 $ # The second was specific training for farmers. 'the season this must made for the travel 'trouble worth men- , however, things looked three times on a mile safe and sound, after a e Have Wha to Offer. O ONE chartered Bank in Can- N:- has anything greater to offer * ® the business community than its contemporaries unless it be in the character of the service it renders, During the half century of its life, the Standard Bank has developed a distinet individuality through the kind of service maintained in its daily transactions, The commercial aspect of this individuality is found in the many unique services for which the Standard Bank is "peculiarly equipped. STANDARD B OF CANADA. PORT PERRY BRANCH--H. G. Hutcheson, Manager Branches also at Blackstock, Little Britain, Nestleton Station, Sunderland SCUCOG and its ENVIRONS By Rev. F. G. Weir In 1868 two churches were built the Christian near where Mr. John MacGregor lives, and the Bible Christian near where Mr. Geo. Jackson lives. It is said that these two were raised on the same day. The Bible Christian church was later moved to the Centre where it still stands. During the pastorate of Rev. W. T. Wicket it was enlarged hy having about twenty feet added to the length of it. On the re-opening Sunday Rev. Prof. Bowles of Victoria University, Toronto, was the preacher. "On Monday evening a most successful tea meeting and entertainment was held. A most bountiful supper was served, followed by an ex- cellent programme of music and addresses. There was an enormous crowd present, enough to fill the church two or three times, but everything passed ofl quietly and orderly. William Ross, ex-M.P., of Port Perry occupied the chair, with his usual grace and-diginity. A successful appeal was made by Rev..B. Greatrix for subscriptions to clear the church of all debt." The original ¢hurch was dedicated on Sunday, June 31, 1869. Following is the account of the event as recorded in the Observer, the Bible Christian paper then published in Bowmanville. "To the numerous readers of the Observer unacquainted with the locality a brief description of the island will not be out of place. It is the largest of those islands which stud the beauti- ful and romantic "Lake Scugog" and was for many years called by way of pre-eminence the "Big Island." but has been for some- time-formed- into a township and designated "The Township of Scugog, in the County of Ontario. It is connected with the main- land at the rising Village of Port Perry, the anticipated terminus of the "Whitby and Port Perry Railway," by a floating bridge, three-fourths of a mile long. The soil is for the most part good, and is occupied by an industrious, intelligent and moral class of men, to whose praise I would record the fact, that there is no tavern on the Island. Here some five years ago, during the Pastorate of Bro. John Pinch, at the earnest request of the settlers the Gospel message, was proclaimed in a little log School house, and soon a few members were united in church fellowship. The ministers of the M. E. Church also, found their way to the Island, and succeeded a few years ago, in erecting a nice frame church. During the Pastorate of Bro. John Williams, our members were stirred up to arise and build a house for the Lord, & site was sought, and obtained from Mr. David Jackson, a subscription list passed around, and the sum of $400 subscribed towards the object. Immediately after my appointment to the charge of this mission, steps were taken to commence the work, the contract for a frame, on a stone foundation 24 x 26, with an entrance porch 10 x 12, was let for 'the sum of $545, the members supplying material for foundation, and frame, so that the whole expense of the church is about $600. The Trustees and building com- mittee, knowing the friends on the Island had subscribed to the full extent of, and in some instances, even beyond their ability, and that $150 would be required to meet the contract engage- ment, were filled with anxious fears; many thought it unwise to provide a tea, in connection with the opening services, as the burden would necessarily fall on a few, however being encouraged to proceed they went to work with a will, and made the necessary preparations. The state of the roads did not tend to allay. their fears, there being no sleighing, but on Sunday morning hope be- gan to dawn, for long before the hour announced for the first ser- vice had arrived, sleighs and cutters froii the environs ot the lake, and wagons and buggies from a distance, streamed along in quick succession and many-asked, where have they all come from. The Church was soon filled to its utmost capacity. Mr, Barker, President of the Conference, conducted the service, and preached ww eB ee epee the dedicatory sermon, taking for his text the closing words of Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple. "Now there- fore arise O Lord God into thy resting place," ete. . 2 Chron. 4:41. The sermon was in Bro. Barker's best style, delivered with great pathos and power, sometimes a quaint remark caused the smile of delight to play on the countenance, and anon, some soul touch- ing truth, melted ever heart into solomn awe. It was indeed a very gracious time, many felt the Lord had in truth, arisen into his resting place. The afternoon service, was, according to announcement, to have been conducted by Bro. Whitlock from Mariposa, but he was unable to attend. Bro. Joseph Hoid, Chairman of the. District, was present, but though earnestly requested, did not feel himself equal to the duty, of conducting the service, and Bro. Barker agai occupied the pulpit, grounding his discourse on Rom, § fore being justified," etc. It was an excellent sermon, th of the sinners justification, was set forth in plain, but i language.. The preacher was most happy in stripping 1 trine of justification by faith, of the mysteries thrown & round by, the School men, and illustrated it so clearly and beautifully, that few, if any could fail to understand this important seripty / It was thought by many, that the evening congregation would be mall as many had come from a distan ing d ora: eo but no, the church was literally crammed, 3 Barker aga officiated, addressing the audience, from the words of th ist " One thing have I desired of the Lord 2 Psi2T: 4. 5, precious truths and to 3 sermon was rich with attention. , We trust that much good. will result fr one at least, an aged friend on the 'wh he has taken a deep interest, in the e 5 A & Cont