Newmarket Era , September 11, 1925, p. 1

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hi leading County Paper as Well the Oldest No paper sent out of North York unless paid in advance IL JACKSON and Proprietor NEWMARKET 0 N FRIDAY SEPT HEADQUARTERS FOR ENGINEERS Babbitt Laoo and Hobo from to ol Every Pino and and Slop Cooks In Iron or Brass Bolting In Rubber Leather or Waterproof Canvas Dixons Bolt Dressing and Graphite Leather and Mitts Iron Cement will mend all cracks In OIL8 GREASES GASOLINE PURE MANILLA ROPE The best reserve one can have Savings Bank account- It not only increases by the interest it earns but it gives you assurance in meeting any problem which may present itself Areserve is as necessary to you as it is to your Bank Open a saving account with this Bank and start to establish your re serve IMPERIAL BANK OF ML GAME SONS CO IBM Building Interesting Unpublished History of a Pioneer Family in East I which mention fa mode of Calvin Bines father Aaron Ernes and Thomsa the father of Mrs Calvin should like to hear I then In company Graham hired to go to Kingston from York In a email boat In they did go little visions in the country I that very many of Joined and sen wo which us hen laid down t Sharon per however did not lnnl the next Wo wore wider Die necessity of cui ng out wheal before It was fully Wo pounded it out best we could cleaned and boiled It and so ate it Willi sugar milk when we had It re from llpts Of Titus previous t Dc Lumber Lath Shingles Posts Etc ALIO Doors Sash Flooring and Moulding Turning Sawing Dressing Etc The Wm Cane Sons Co Limited Factory Yards Huron St Newmarket Phi GREENS FINE QUALITY WALL PAPERS AND BEST SELECTIONS FOR ALL PURPOSES FROM TO PER ROLL of and SO In Ofclmeale WINDOW SHADE PAPER FOR BLINDS DUPLEX GREEN 811 Any With Without From Now York City to Canada In wing at my father Hugh and family alarled lor Canada We came by from Now York City to Albany thence by wagon to Hnheiicslady where my father Join- with one Daniel Beadle and bought a boat of about five tons In this an open bout besides the effects of families here were three women four men and two children six be longing to each of the two families In Ihh boat wo paused up the Mo hawk River as far where Roane now stands thence across by a short military Canal to Wood down that to Oneida Lake thence across that and down river to Oswego and from there across the foot of Lake Ontario to Kingston In Canada was the only route by which a family could come from Albany to Kingston and we found It a long tedi ous one especially considering was mostly performed hi the wet month of April I now turn to consider the state of Canada when I first became acquaint ed with It As I have before slated wo came by water for at that time there was no road from Albany to Kingston direct There was a road from Albany running Into Vermont a military road and from there west ward through the country to the St opposite Cornwall or fur ther west to Oswagatchle now There was another road from Albany also military by ittft way of Oswego and on to the frontier The most of the people coming the way of Albany car while they sent their cattle by if these routes Those coming from the more Eastern Stales car the way of and St Lawrence at various points below Cornwall While those coming from Philadelphia etc such as the era came through Pennsylvania and crossed either at Buffalo or lower and returned which was considered a great feat taking Into account the danger we wcro exposed to from the American well from Iho like itself on Lako In latter part of November of hat year two boats brought up St for Iho purpose- of taking huge of flour In bogs- and homo of clothing for the troops and- others about Mario at the foot of Lake Superior Those were the boats that ever We the Hon Duncan Cameron and manage these boats The flour etc being token to where Bar- hack or tho head or Willow Crook Ihe eastern branch of the River from out of tueslon eaten up our hogs unlit other grow bring per Journey of Family to orn Kingston we proceeded west about four miles anil stopped at one Joseph who had been In Canada for four or five years hut Mr Beadle went on some id miles further up tho Bay Here my father taught school In the and fanned In a of we moved where we summer of While on we suffered all d privations to which a large helpless family In with annual ague Is Incl In bid to Wolfe and removed to East and leased farm opposite the Temple at Sharon then Hope jlere the fam ily excepting resided until the close of the war In the spring of my parents with the younger members of he family removed that farm on east side of Yongi St known as No Mont gomerys Tavern which farm be longed to Ihe late Hon Allan of Toronto There they resided either three or four years when Ihoy re turned to Bast Gwillimbury and remained unfil my fathers dcaln Hugh which happened 3rd January and my mother con tinued lo reside there until her death 3rd Juno was Mary Titus Wlllson Experiences In Woods From the removal to East Gwllllm bury lo the spring of 1812 I had re sided with my father on the farm At thii i to to taker place of frost set In early and up the creek so It had to remain thereuntil the next spring The that curried over tho flour ere taken from about SO Years Ago From Eva Sept new Christian was dedicated last Sabbath Rev Dr of Dayton Ohio conducting the services and Hathaway of Orange City ft preaching he dedicatory MelhodisL District Meeting took place here Sept large at tendance of delegates Civic holiday at Holland Land ing today Cricket in the fore noon sports in the afternoon and dancing at night masked men entered the a Mice of Mr Samuel Wilson 2nd Con Whitchurch Saturday night and stole in silver and the balance in The Altar At the bride Sept fc Miss and i pllot- of the Indians John Snake from near Aurora by the way down to Point Cooks Bay and thence to was ail woods and ttiat winter Dennis grand father of Col 1 S Dennis went a party of men to Willow Creek and there built some or 30 of about five tons I assisted work the 1st of April when I hired as a substitute for one Daniel Clark uncle of Silas Clark of East and again went Little York Here I rernalnnd 1st June when Edward Clarke and I took a contract from ihe Government boat stores from Holland Landing where now standi Wc fol lowed that business until the close of vlgatlon About 1st Dec a number of i were employed Commissari at Department to open a between Keinpenfeldt Bay on Lake to Bay on Lake Huron APPOINTMENTS to Following Is complete list of appointments to the Judiciary the Senate and the Bail- way Board announcement regarding which was made by the Prime Min ister on Saturday and change if P Judge Basket- J Thompson County Judge Ontario James County Court Judge Ontario James KUloran County Court Judge Ontario Grant High Court Judge Ontario J A Court Judge Quebec Justice of Appeal Ontario Circuit Court Judge Quebec Superior Court mill news of peace about 1st of April Head the other route further West but whicti wa but little travelled at that time by the French and Indians by the way of Pittsburgh from New Orleans to Detroit and so Into Canada At that and for years after the settlements In the country were con fined to the borders of the St Law rence and lakes Erie and Ontario In SUPPLIES Hemlock White Pine Spruce Fir Lumber SASH and DOORS fi- Fir anil White Pine Trim Coal Wood and Coke H for myself I concluded Willi this In view I started about first of April 1812 being then years of age for Quebec I soon fell In with a man near Brighton wanted me to go with him up the Rive Trent to get out lumber and to take It to Quebec This I thought a good chance for me But he did not Intend commencing before the 1st of May so I hired to a man close by He In Tied on by water even from ihe above to the seaboard The produce of the upped country was brought to Kingston by schooners or open boats and thence to Montreal by French of some five tons burden or by large scows soma of which could from to barrels of Plrst Steamboat out they began to boat called a Durham which would carry some barrels of flour did the b both down and up the St Law rence until the steamers began to run on the lakes whfo4 was I think In Or The first steamer that I ever saw wag in Montreal In first settlers from the eastern limit of Upper Canada lo the head of the Bay of followed lumber ing In winter and would often Join and make a real raft together and send It to Quebec and then bring back suoh things as they want ed for their families and for the nest winters operations Of In war between England and the United States which was a great drawback to Canada duly for several years We were often called or two and by the fairly Lome we would perhaps- be called out again By such continued interruptions tlrere not enough Still House and here I learned to make whiskey I then went Messrs Fay into the Townships of and Peroy where remained for some three months then we came down and made up our raft and started for Quebec This was in the Hatter part of August The war broke out In that summer while we were up In the woods and by the time we had got under way and pro ceeded from the mouth of the Trent as far as within four miles of Kings ton we were driven ashore and broken up It took us about a month to repair our raft and by this t the Americans were In force Cornwall and had taken some raft their way across Lake St Francis As it was getting late In the sea for rafting purposes It was thought best to lay up for the winter look the raft Into Creek and staked her down and dispersed On account of not getting my pay I returned homo About a week after I went lo York now Toronto to do garrison duty There slopped until the nest spring About 1st of April my service being then ended I went down again thinking we might go on with the not that I would get my Token by Early in that year orders from England lo build wo gats at Kingston and as thee timber at hand but our raft gave more for would have brought in fall before or even at the lime war was raging and men were so I Ihe of Commissioners for the Senate J J Hughes Senator for Prince Edward Island Senator for Edward Island Hon Jacquc Bureau Senator for Quebec Senator for John Lewis Senator for Ontario Hon Charles Murphy Senator for W- A Buchanan Senator for Senator for Hon James A to Finance The following to of members of the for Canada Gordon Herbert To be Minister of Customs and Excise Hon be Minister of Immigration and Col onization Hon Gordon Solicitor of General Hon 25 Years Ago From Era Sept The Liberals of East York have chosen Howell as standard beam- in the next Do minion Election Mr and Mrs are this week in from her sister who resides in Parry and Mrs J Powell of Mich are visiting Mr and Mrs ft A Mrs John Crone of Buffalo the guest of Mis II Cane Fowler and son of the week with Mrs Stewart Miss or Rochester a couple of weeks Mrs Richardson Miss Ivory of Orillia and Mr of Clifton Springs ere guests of Miss Perkins last week Mr Brown of Detroit and Mr and Mrs Bert of Ashlabula Ohio were visitors at last week Miss of Chicago ac- Mrs Mr Millard Howard of Dray ton visited at his home for a couple of weeks A family gathering look place at the residence of J on Tuesday Mr Geo Fogg and wife of Queensville returned from their in the Northwest Mr Montgomery of Syra cuse Y and children re turned home this week and Root Hewitt father of Mrs Montgom ery went with them to spend the Drury Ernes of North Family Drowned in Lake Is Ernes family came from In I believe They sprang the early settlors of of English origin and Presbyterians In while rossing from Hie mouth of the River Roachs Point in a Calvin Ernes a son a laughter her husband and an Indian all drowned This family was rnong the first settlers on the shore if Lake where they many privations for want of a from there to Newmarket They vere consequently compelled travel by the lake and river for a number of years both In winter and summer On one of these trips re turning from Mill they were drown ed Settled In East At the of the war In I settled a In East known afterwards as Spruce Dale This and I bad bought during the war acres E lots and and had at the about acres cleared with a small house and bam upon It Upon thh place I worked Ihe first year alone my brother John Wlllson being em ployed building a schooner at flu mouth of the River the late Hon Peter Th year he Joined me on the fam where we continued to work togethe clearing up our farms until when he married A short before this however we entered a contract with Government for the supply beef to the Naval Establishment at In whfcji one other of us was employed for Continued on Pata lily tor The modern oils but girl like Trenton Sept 3 AS the result of an accident and helping tend o injured men was apparently the of the death today of Benjamin aged CD was riding In a motor truck on the Kingston Road from Trenton to Belleville accom panying driver John of Trenton A motor ear driven and owned by Robert Reed of and carrying also two Trenton Charles Ellis and John Le- get ahead of the truck The motor car took the ditch turning two somersaults Reed and Ellis were hurt slightly the third man escaping Injury and helped to right tried t the i who pinned underneath Then was taken suddenly ill and was his home Ho died In a few moments had lived all his life In Trenton The teaching profession Is again becoming crowded and lower salar ies are anticipated Recently a School Board In applications for a single position and fixed a salary of where In they paid The editor of the local paper gives from to In free lines to the community in which It Is lo cated No other can or will do this The editor In proportion to his his and all fairness ought be not you like or admire bis writings I because the local paper Is the Investment the community can ma Hardware and Metal Magazine Woodstock Sept it While lag the Provincial highway a Bon Corners two mites east of Woo Edna Dukes daughter of Mr passed to borrow for the extension of the light and waterworks system The Altar At the parsonage Sepf by Rev J Vickery Miss Sarah of Whitchurch to Stephen Sellers of Zephyr At the- Methodist parsonage Queensville by Rev A Brown Sept 12th Miss A Bain to A Tail all of East At the residence of the brides father Toronto Sept by Rev Peter Addison assisted by Rev Allen Mis to Rev A P Addisi of At Chatham Sept Jen nie wife of John Stringer and daughter of Mrs Douglas of Holt At Durham Ontario Sept 7th Dr Eugene Free formerly of In Whitchurch Sept Sarah beloved wife of Jabez Johnson n her year At Toronto Sept Francis of aged An excellent of advice was that given to Cray ft mere boy when he began his work Within a few days of the he was fifteen his flam on records of Mb Annual travelling preicher ever received la the to the circuit la Jaunt of his uncle fchrfiwdnfeis and humor gave a parting which he never forgot and to which ha often In later yean- Never pretend that you know KM

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