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of prope ih enjoy to kings os ago. Month by ng seasons bring fy of beauty and hg until our storehouses are full, and we - suffer from great wealth. Year by 'year our children are growing into ~ manhood and womanhood; and the 5 Pioneer luxuries are looked upon as common necessities to-da; "are normally so peaceful that we: have created artificial adventure: We ~ people of Canada can be happy and prosperous. | If we go looking for trouble we can certainly find it. If we look fc 'happiness we can find. that, too, ~ There is a good lesson in the story of © - the man who built a fire; in his ~ home during the closing years of his life. Above the fireplace he inscribed this mo "Our usual pictures of the New Year have to fact: The New Year is not a baby, St unused record. 'year. . We do live better and more fully each year. In the matter of health our lives are longer and more comfortable, , Our lives ) Each New Year brings to us. kN oe 'and & experience of the ages. Each old year has tried and tested our modes of living; and our mistakes are being corrected in the crucible of time. We ought to live better and more fully each ~ matters of wealth, we are learning there must be a minimum wage; and poverty is the enemy of wealth in Ve which we were careless in the olden days. The public conscience has not yet. reached {* Life has been full of troubles; most of which have never Rappaied os the stage where it dem rich shall share their idle riches wi the poor. But we are thinking about it. Some day perhaps we shall that only when all receive fair treat- ment can we truly call ourselves civilized. It is not socialism we need --but " liberty, equality ( of o ODDOF, tunity ) and fraternity "' that should be our guiding principles. In international affairs it is dawn- ing upon us that the world is one; and that the only way to truly con uer a nation is toserveit. We are finding out that tariffs are necessary evils that the only way to trade is to trade and not to always expect to sell with- out buying. We are discovering that gold standards or silver standards do not count. The question is the good faith and the real wealth that is behind those standards. We are conning the lesson as to the advisability of war. Does it pay to kill off a few million men and women to gain a point or a territory? Are there no high adventures but those of destruction? Is greatnese to be measured by the power of the mailed fist? This is our difficult lesson. It is very hard for the young folk to understand that the glamour of war is but the paint on the hideous head of death. Undoubtedly life is richer to-day than ever before. There is no argument to convince us that we have more than tapped the possibilities of NG living--physical, moral, or spiritual. Because these things are so, we wish you "A Happy New Y have a reasonable hope that our wish will be granted. Part of the e ful gh Wey of the wish will depend on circumstances; but most, the fulfilln it will de- We no longer take filth as a matter of course. We chase dirt; we " pend on ourselves--our Yinghess to make the best of things and be fo (Solid Toads; we let in the sunlight whenever we can. wk i A thusipes of buys waseowly sotaped Bois bariad to. death in a boathouse at Honey's Point, Fortunately while most of tear down ramshackle buildings; we destroy weeds; 'we phild appy; and our mutual good wi 'We wish everyone--"A HAPPY NEW YEAR" SUMMARY OF EVENTS FOR 1931 Jimmy Read, Jr., lost two fingers by being cut with a 2 sawing machine. "es Jno. W. Crozier opened his law office in Port Perry. The Board of Health issued a letter regarding sanitary conditions in Port Perry. » » * : them were quite seriously burned there were no fatalities, Ress Ses snd Gods ud 4 av te * 0% 8 Post Dinky 0. H A defeated Usbridge in Hockey with a score of 4-8 on January 2nd. * * ¥ # ~~ Lindsay defeated Port Perry Hockey Club in an O, H, A. game by 8 to 1 on abuary. 5th. i . w ge Port Perry starts its struggle for maintaining a proper ray service, and C. C. Jeffrey begins his campaign re the the C. N. R. vi ost to Lindsay 4-0 on the 16th. ow as, ae he wars oud of te towers wae Port Perry High School hockey team wins group 4. » » * ott Perry Public School has a fine ice carnival, * » Thomas Beare died on the 12th of February, in his 77th year. * * x Mr. Robert Walker died in Reach Township on Supdey, February 15th. ; » * oo On February 16th, Dorothy Miller lost her life in an auto The Railway Beary ordered the return of the daily train. Mr, James McKnight, of doronto, died suddenly of heart Mr. R. M. Holtby conducted the National Holstein Sale at the Agricultural Arena on April 28th. LN Dr. James Moore was appointed Registrar for Ontario County. * - * Joseph W, Burton died at Virden, Manitoba, in his 74th year. * * * Mr. H. G. Hutcheson retired from the Bank of Commerce after forty years of service and the staff made a handsome "accident. : presentation to him, ax * * The College Flapper was staged by a "hundred local people. David Alexander died of exposure on Lake Scugog. * * » A window was unveiled in Columbus United Church in memory of the late Hon. William Smith, . * ¥ : 98 re no, * a a The William Real barn of Reach Township was burned on i mt the Mages snowstorms of the season occurred the 10th, of May. : a. A large number of men volunteered and dug out the road im, James Waddel died on the 12th of May. to Manchester. * ep 4 Mr. hr Mis. William Reader celebrated the fortieth an- Ee oxo Sad c. Browie o died in Port Perry on the 12th of Mach sMiversary of their wedding on the 2 18 Sa. ~ Te. . : Fort Pry Bowing Oot halk ; of June, rr lk Mr, Geege Smith, of Prospect died on the 19th of May. " Mr. "Samson Yelland left Pont rors to reside aff his home Me James Munros died st Sons on the Me Gore In dd idly Mr. John Irvin died at Port Perry on the 9th of June. bi *. » * An Educational Convention was held at the Port Perry High School on the 20th of June. - x 0» Suteliffe and Sons discontinued business in Port Perry. xx Mr. George Stone, former Mathematical Master in Port Perry High School, died June 26th. * % 0% Mr. 'R. M. Holtby was appointed one of the judges of the Holstein Friesian Extension Service. * * * Maxine Crone, of Toronto, was drowned at the waterfront, x ow > i Mr, Arthur E. Christian, many years County Clerk, died at Whitby on July 4th. * * General James MacBrien was appointed head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. i «0. © BS Mr. Donald Ruddy, son of Judge Ruddy, was nie Si County Clerk. hen LE Caesarea held its annul Regatta on the 8rd of August. LE Dr, J. A. Mathers was appointed to the staff of the Hud- son River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. - 0 Dr. W. S. Harper purchased the medical practice of Dr: J. A. Mathers. . kw David W. Johnston was killed in 'an ite. accident at inter-section of the road leading to Caesarea, Blackstock @ Port Perry.