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ERA 4 oe a > SR a Lis ¥ iS LH Sha 3 TER To ak MAL ERMVISSERIRE JRNetNEA Re CRAY RASA CLP 2 eg DUA AE ek : FSA FO LEAN a RG) (38 fy 3 hei aa A \ iY 03 iN TEs YM Ee RAEN, BSW a hay PAY WOR KAS LOMAS he ERR OAT FEAT ATARI, Yar APE, 3 TH] TES % INES R LEER EASY ERT 20 - PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, May 28, 1970 ; Life Was Better When | Was A Boy Elizabeth Bateman is the second winner of two top prizes in an essay contest sponsored by Lake Scugog Historical Society and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Elizabeth has a vivid imagination and reminisces back into early Ontario historv, relating the life on the farm, school, cnurcn, etc, It is a privilege to have the opportunity of printing her interesting story. She is a grade seven student at R.H. Cornish Public School. OLD ONTARIO I come from old Ontario, Where grapes and pears and _ peaches grow, And apples and tomatoes, took land from the Crown, it was an unbroken forest. He cut down. trees, built a log cabin, brought my Mom from the Old Country and then I was born here. In these years there was one home- stead to every 100 or more acres in our settlement. No over - population worries for us in those days. The old Church we went to had a high-pitched roof and arched windows, with a steeple and a bell called us too, : all to prayers. My old school and Iragrant Howers ot had the old box-stove and fairest hue. _| firewood, which we all took Cool rivers flow on every turns chopping; a water pail hand and dipper; double seats and By forest, rock and desks - with their pack-knife meadowland, carvings; and the old regis ters with our names & ages carefully recorded. Today the pupils seem to run the school & the teachers. Good discipline is what we got and With the wonderful world of mines below, Enriching old Ontario. This poem of old 'Ontario by John Murray Gibson A thousand miles from East to West, brings me back to my won- ol And every mile with beauty | derful boyhood days which I Wey Jia have oll Wy blest-- loved so much. Even though Sa Book. the pt Roig There is no fairer land I I'm 93 I can still remember I wi Soap iL m% know glimpses of my early years life; but our Readers. They Than lovely old. Ontario. In Onario, When ny. Dud were something else. They were real dramatic. We had mostly for bogks--the Fam- ily Bible, the photograph al: bum, a few school prizes and a couple of hooks bought from a travelling salesman, . Some days I'd come in from chores and a neighbour passing on his way to the mill would be dropping his wife off at our house to spend the afternoon with us and he would pick her up at supper time. There was a snugness for both family and friends in the old house. And a home was for the family then--there was no rad.o or T.V. constantly bringine the world into it. I can still re. member our old stereoscope and a few pictures on the parlour table. Now we have colour slides & photographs, and other forms of entertain- ment. Every Saturday, my friends and I, after chores, in the warm weather, took our bath. ing suits and went to "the crick". It was a clean, free- running stream, turbulent as a river in springtime and it never went dry in the hot- est summer. Flowers grew along the crick - snapdragons and tigerlillies- and in the spring patches of marsh mari- golds. All of this is only memory now, for. the creek has disappeared, except for the. ugly . scar where the stream bed. used to be. There won't be many cricks left for children to swim in soon with all the pollution run: ning into our lakes and streams. One of my happiest seas: ons was Christmas. Christmas has always been a family day with us. We decorated a tree and had carols; a dinner with a turkey, candles on the table and a sprig of holly in the Christmas pudding. On Christmas Eve someone al- ways read the Nativity Story from the family Bible. In the afternoon there would be skating on the pond. And the opening of gifts for our loved ones. Now Christmas is mostly commercial. Santa Claus is taught to the c¢ i.d- sen and the real meaning of Christmas is missed. Those years were good years to me. Now there's pollution, over population, War and too much hurry and other things that make the world not as pleasant as it was then. Yes sir, I'll say this again and again "Life was Better When I Was A Boy." . By Elizabeth Bateman, Age 12, Grade 7, Mr. Tristram, R. H. Cornish 'Public School, Warden Urges Members To Make Decision Members of Ontario County Council at their May session were urged by Warden Robert Timbers to make up their minds quickly regarding their stands on regional government. 'Mr. Timbers reviewed the highlights of the municipal- 'provincial . conference, the Design for Development, the meeting at which plans for 'York Regional Government were announced and the con-. ference of mayors and reeves at Windsor. ' He urged county council to iron out its differences as regional government east of Toronto was inevitable. The 'past month had been one of the most significant in mun- icipal life in the history of the province. : HOMES WANTED | REAL ESTATE LTD-REALTON 985-7373 RT Rl RN ee Cain 170 To Raa E Sk wi "h ORAS EN ASW SR a 3 eae Rn Le Sn SR AHL AD] DIRECTORY EMMERSON INSURANCE AGENCY LIMITED General Insurance 985-7306 PORT PERRY Septic Tanks Cleaned By PUMP EQUIPMENT SEPTIC TANKS AND WEEPING Beds INSTALLED REG. - ARMSTRONG ~ Port Perry -- 985-2226 a few bits of Shakespeare, poems and readings. We had glimpses of Dickens and "The Cheipas Carol" and other things like that. I hear that young people today find it all very dull. My mother was always at DUFF home when we children came ELECTRONICS home from school. - She was ADMIRAL there to give us a "piece" : and hear about our day. Ac- TELEVISION tually there wasn't much time for talk when we came from school as we had chores to do and Mom had the cows to milk and supper to cook. But we could feel that Mom was near by, and she knew where we were, and we would all be under one roof to- gether when the day ended. Today when children come home the Mom and Dad are out working somewhere or at this or that meeting and are hardly ever home. The children act up and some- times get into serious troub- SALES and SERVICE Phone 985.7993 or 985-2728 PORT PERRY For Income' Tax & Bookkeeping Services see ALEX SHEPHERD Room 2, Post Office Buildin, Phone 985-7031 Specializing in business and farm operations. FOR ANY OF YOUR Insurance Needs 'Do it the Co-operative Way Co-Operators Ins. Assoc. ETHEL NOTTINGHAM ¥ Myrtle 655-4832 PTOLEMY & | GRIEVE GULF Service Station General Repairs . le. How can children get a feeling for family life, if their parents are never home? "Little pitchers have big ears". This, old warning | shows that children have. an amazing way of taking in what goes on around them. The old house, which my father built after their first log cabin burnt down, was HONDA - SUZUKI SALES and SERVICE PARTS -- ACCESSORIES SUPPLIES - SERVICE ALL MAKES SNOWMOBILE SERVICE * R. WHITAKER Phone 983-2276 a large rambling family REDI- MIX house. And there were things . about it that held the family TRUCKLEASE together. Not at all like the apartments and small houses of today. In the winter sometimes the kitchen was Short or long term contracts, Hourly or Monthly Rates 986-4882, CAESAREA, Ont. Port Perry -- 985-3182 Earl Wallace DUMP TRUCKS, the only heated room so we CEMENT MIXERS, all spent our leisure time there. On summer evenings BROTHERS or ng we assembled on the front CONSTRUCTION |porch. The porch was taken |, away-a few years ago when Have your house built by |the picture windows were/ experts. . put in; at the same time the ROOFING CALL spare bedroom disappeared , i m. Asphalt SHINGLES, ROLLED 985-2979 | ee Linge ROOFING, STEEL and : OL coniral eal of " " 985-3203 running water there was com- ALUMINUM ROOFING fort In the oid L. Bed EAVESTROUGHING Also General Repairs, ort in the old house, Bed Cottages Raised rooms might be cold in win- We will contract for all kinds ages Raised, ter but hot bricks and wool of roof work. : Foundations ee... __|[ blankets made the beds i Y 1 Cit GN warm, 'Our parlour was not Malcolm Phillips : ~ |a gloomy showplace, but a ONTARIO LAND SURVEYOR] Check The Label plush-furnished, gilt - framed 157 Main Street W. Stouffville, Ont. hanging pictures, carpeted room with one of, the first + | pianos brought into this area, On Your Paper PHONE 640-4031 and a large centre table used Port Perry, Ontario. - NOTICE! - Township Of Reach Notice 1s hereby given of a By-law intended to be passed by the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Reach in the County of Ontario. i Whereas the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Reach deem it in the public interest to close a certain portion of Township road, namely Alexander Streetin the Village of Prince Albert. The proposed By-law as set out herein is a draft only. Take notice that the Reeves and Council or committee of the: Township of - Reach will meet in the Council Chambers of the Township of Reach on Tuesday, June 30th, 1970 at 8 o'clock p,m. and there and then will hear in person or by Council, Solicitor or Agent, any person who claims hisland will be prejudically + affected by this By-law and applies to be heard. A By-law of the Corporation of the Township of Reach, a By-law to stop up and close parts of Highway in the Township of Reach. (1) The following part of Highway-Street or Road allowance as shown on the Registered plan 35 of part of the Village of Prince Albert. More particularly describ- ed. as_ follows: All and singular that certain part or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the Village of Prince Albert in the County and Province of Ontario and being composed of that part of Alexander Street as shown on Sexton, Major and Hurds plan registered as plan number 35, of part of the ~ said Village of Prince Albert formerly part of Lot 17 in Concession 5 of the Township of Reach which said parcel or tract of land may be more particularly described as follows commencing at the interesection of the Easterly limit of Alexander Street with the North-Westerly limit of Mary Street as shown on said plan. Thence South 23 degrees 0 minutes West along the Southerly production of the North Westerly limit of Mary Street 102.29 feet more or less to the Westerly limit of Alexander Street. Thence North 12 degrees 30 minutes West along the Westerly limit of Alexander Street 560.61 feet more or less to its intersection with the Westerly production of the Southerly limit of Josephine Street. Thence North 78 degrees 30 minutes East along said Westerly production 69.41 feet to the Easterly limit-of Alexander Street. Thence South 12 degrees 30 minutes East along said Easterly limit 466.29 feet more or less to the point of Commencement, Therefore the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Reach enacts as follows: Whereas the Reeves and Council of the Corporation of the Township of Reach deem it in the public interest to close up the previously described portions of ! road. on And whereas no person is being deprived of ingress or egress to or from his or her land or place of residence. And whereas notice of .this By-law has been published once'a week for four con- secutive weeks namely May 28th, Jyne 4th, 11th and 18th, 1970 in the Port Perry Star a weekly newspaper published and circulated in the Corporation of the Village of Port Perry. : : . And whereas the Corporation of the Township of Reach in accordance with the provision of the Marine Act has duly caused notice of its intention to pass this 'By-law to be posted up for at least one month in six public places in the immediate neighbourhood of the parts of the Highway in question. This By-law shall take effect upon the date of its final passing. Dated this 26th day of May 1970. 3 - -A.R. Johns - Clerk . 1 2 - 1] Z on