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t LrftMA Vi J County v a it 4 Give ma toe liberty fe to a to argue freely to above all liberty LI No Single Copies Each Tit 8 PAG paper outside North York unless paid in advance- jvv fc Newmarket dV 1902 per annum if paid in advance for Prices 200 and 350 j Leather Shin Pads pair Shin Pads with ankle supports Pucks 15 and each w Settlement of Hill J u Written or the Era by Harrison White Duck Knickers padded Hockey Sticks 10 15 and Continued from last week NICHOLAS MILLAR AND The white referred In last weeks Era was Nicholas Millar a Loyalist who had settled on lot A farm for many in possession of the family but now owned by David James Esq By the wise Millar who wanted a neighbor and his suggsion that there was a choice fit splendid land that section with an offer- of assistance in the building of a house was to mo his family from the north and Kettle on an adjacent lot far which he received his deed in Millar seems to have been one of the earliest set- tiers of Town of York com ing over with from Newark in his preparatory arrangements for Spring Skates a Best Straps tan or black pair in order that they may become possessors of homesteads to transmit to- their children close of i the century however the circumstances these early settlers had greatly improved The seat of Government for Upper Canada was first held at Newark now Niagara After the little misunder standing about tie tea c between the British Government and her Col onies in had been settled John Graves our first Lieutenant- Governor began to be afraid that some fine morning the Americans to prevent their guns from rusting might them over at Government House and spoil some of the furniture On Monday July few mil itary gentlemen a few boats and a few Indians the Governor set out from Newark rounded the point of the peninsula sailed into the I lauded at the Arsenal as the old Fort was- called shook hands with the Indians and lovely squaws who occupied the two wig- on the shore and constituted from Africa A S goers YukcQ prisoner Plenty of Fruit change of site for the Capital of Up- Ibe per Canada We may suppose that he was on somewhat intimate terms with the Governor as under his au spices Millar built the first sawmill in may we canvas tent erected two builder of first grist mill in three jog sample which seen on the Exhibition Me first put f also tte said hewas his big eanU two jot section Until such necessary ad juncts to civilization were erected and long after it was required there stood novel substitute fc GENERAL HARDWARE CARRIAGE WOODEN WARE BLACKSMITHS SUPPLIES tj PLUMBING fcr i NEW- A KET ONI T 4 P R I E s on PATENT MEDICINES are the AT- SORUGSTORE Have a Look at gome of them Regular Our Price Price Pills Kidney Pills smelly Any three of above 35 Regular Our Price Price large I I L Chases Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine Electric Oil Dr Thomas Carters Little Liver Pills Compare our Prices with any others We Lead in all Branches of our by anyone Burdock Blood Bitters j Hoods J Scotts Pierces family loo Pierces Golden Medical 1 16 South American Kidney Cure 100 65 J 75 All patents at Cut Prices and will not be I It The Leading Druggist NEWMARKET ONTARIO was of a solid tree which had been cut down the stump was levelled and hollowed out like a wooden butter bowl and into this the grain was pour At suitable distance was set a high puW with a top This held a long cross piece to one end of which was attached a heavy block of wood hanging directly over the stump The other end held down by a rope was let go letting the block down on the grain with a thud reducing it to ftour Previous to the erection of mills it was no uncommon thing for a farmer to walk twenty miles a bag of wheat on his back and re turn with the grist The nearest mill at the beginning the last cen tury was at Smiths Creek now Port Perry where the farmers would go in flat bottom boats by the Mr Millar was not only possessed of considerable me chanical ingenuity but he was a man of sterling character and indomitable perseverance Ills patent from the Government for homestead land ap pears to he about the first for it dates back to and Millar had much to do in opening up of this part of the country and mak ing the situation as comfortable as possible for later settlers Mr John Lyons whose descendants all around us was another of the earliest settlers in our vicinity his government patent lor lot 34 Mark- ham dating 1716 Millar Lyons and according to Doomsday Book were the first three to the right of citizenship in this local ity John Lyons constructed a dam and built a mill In the of Vaughan in In war of during the invasion of our neighbors who anxious for addi tional territory agricultural imple ments around here became suddenly scarce When the Americans retired the farming requirements were fish ed up from the bottom Lyons pondwhere they had been placed for safe keeping A good story is told of the sang of member of family and at the same time illustrates the physical strength of those early set tiers A couple of men had filled up a bag that contained three bushels of wheat and were discussing as to how it should be got to the mill- Mrs Lyons making a neighborly call over heard the conversation laughed at their dilemma and offered to carry It for them If you carry that bag of wheat to the mill Mrs Lyons safd TUB HANDIEST CHEAPEST QUICKEST AND MOST RELIABLE your private and business is A TELEPHONE Try It Tie Bell Telephone Jo of Canada Manager Relieve those Inflamed Ponds Extract pplfl Jropr or trill Red JiaionDCtUCifttlLiU7 CAUTION represented be lie Pond weoJ lro- a deadly pleaM grounds fired- a volley of guns and called Fort Toronto and the adjacent the capi tal of Canada i Shortly the first of Yonge Street was made by order Governor Sinicoefrom York The Yolk Rang ers under the supervision of Mr Augustus Jones Deputy Provincial Surveyor were put on the road to clear away the underbrush of which Mr Jones reports Dec 1795 Mr Smithy Surveyor General Sir His Excellency was pleased to dirtct previous to my surveying the township of York to proceed on Street to survey and open up a cart from the harbor at York to which I am now busy It took forty days to break the road to the terminus and three days to get Back This opened way for pur firtisettlers comjhg osiers and ynaot for all lTor years Stredt road to that altogether an foot carrying their pro ducts their r turhlng their purchases J ilaiiy a morning jhe- children would send with the results of their little clearing many forebodings of door in the dusk of evening her anxiety as the shades into for their safe return knowing hills tliey would have to climb the streams to cross and perhaps wild beasts to en counter for at that time there was a standing offer of the Government for a tarns head and for that a wolf in an old account book which lies before me kept by Mr Mitesln York from I propose to give a more extended extract later I find the following entries April Mr to a peck salt by Ave shillings June Nicholas Millar by fifteen eggs at two and sixpence ioz thirty fecven shill ings and sixpence NlcholasTMillarDr to three dol lars twentyfour shillings In Street was partly opened the Governor made a tour of inspection and called on our friends and Millar and there Is no doubt that as far as their BROOK The above is a good portrait of Pie war but- died soon after with enteric Brock of Mr Isaac Brock of fever We passed in the usual this Tbwn manner hut lately we have been il i ing high We went out to some Boer When the call to aims was first and got green new po made on behalf of British Empire and a couple of pigs There in connection with the South African Is also- lots fruit here such as trouble- thin young man his apricots and apples They will soon be ripe and then we wont services but was toq late- to however on the second call he repeated his application and being du ly passed he took his departure with the 2nd Canadian Contingent of in fantry Crock as he was familiarly called was quite a popular young man in Newmarket He worked in Canes Factory and was also a fairly good trombone player in the Citizens Band His letters to his parents written OUR SISTERS AT THE FRONT want- for anything in that line In fact no one need want lor eatables just for there is lots of every thing growing all over the country The weather is very warm and the mosquitoes are a terror at night We stilt live in blockhouses and are as comfortable as possible so dont wor ry about me all right Good bye for awhile from your loving son Brock No MM Troop East Heidelberg South Africa 15 at the same time for the of Era readers has made his name familiar and his picture will add still more interest to future contribu tions By Win Brock while in Hospital at KlandsTontein Nov 1401 South Africa Never in the annals of history In Britains wide domain Have women earned such deep respect As they have in this This war had scarcely started When out to the front they came To nurse the sick and wounded And help to ease pain For Era Near River Dec Bear Parents Sisters Brothers I now take the opportunity of again letting you know that I am as well as usual Since I wrote you last we haye moved farther out On Their work was with danger our way we over the ground I they were right at the front Colonel Benson- was killed And none can dispute their right to SSitSllZ raves claim on the sad lots you please report me empty shells We also passed brunt WWAta of the hospital Which was established in clothes were often ragged- and frayed Yet in weariness they were not dis mayed and served during the whole of the war until the reduction army in Thrown On his own resources be applied to the Canadian Government for the position of pro vincial Land Surveyor urging as a plea that he had a small family to provide for one of whom was married to David Bridgford one of the Two Colonels which re cently appeared in the Era- Mr mans homestead was an improvement on the primitive architecture of those days He had coiitfortable surround ings and a lawn in front- In one corner of the lawn was a lonely grave surrounded with pickets wore standing as late as It was the grave Mrs the mother of Mrs Previous to the set- ting apart of consecrated ground the early settlers buried their dead in the cornets of their farms as in the case of the the and the Many of these have levelled with the plow and others sa cred to memory have been carefully guarded and still remain Elgin Mills had the first birth and perhaps the first death in this locality Mr surveyed and laid out the township of complet ing his work in He also sur veyed a large portion of the new Capital and was the first man au- homed by the Government to amine and on the condition of Street Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to our readers to re- to this street as it Is our princi pal thoroughfare quote from his port made nearly a hundred years ago and contrast the past with its present excellent condition Street was first laid out in by Surveyor Jones who had married the daughter of the Indian Chief and was the father of the Rev Jones whom many of us have heard on the missionary form The following incident as yet unrecorded by the chroniclers- of Yonge Street was related to me by a friend who heard it stated by Peter Jacobs the Indian Missionary when he wanted to illustrate the intuitive knowledge an Indian possesses of and longitude to guide him in wanderings in the forest When Surveyor Jones was trying get the bearings of the Holland river to the banks of which it was intended that Yonge Street should run be took his stand with his instrument In at the Bay By his side stood the Chief curiously observing that passed The object the compass was explained to him He at once took hold of the instrument adjusted it and said that was the direction It was afterwards found that hehad pointed within eight rods of the de- sited terminus After the Rangers had cut the road through there was but little done on it until the first order came from the SurveyorGenerals office dated Dec as follows Mr John Sir Ail sons claiming to hold land- in- trio town of York having been required to- cut and born all the brush and to There are of newly made graves also dead horses lying around farm house The inmates into our lines and sent to of our hospitals prisoners of war One of our Corporals was out with and woe To these brave sisters owe our Uvea we were the owner you can have it The reply was Left It on my shoulder was fl taken up tor these inch with The two men raised and placed it there The sturdy woman marched on with her load carried it nearly mite and requested the milter Mr to lift it of her shoulder and grind it for her Such women and men as Millar Munshaw and men and women of bone sinew and pluck were the men and women for those days We who en joy comfortable homes and derive our from the well cultivated by we arc surrounded but faintly realize the terrible hard ships those who endured privations of which we have but little yesterday that was prowling around Or lines we are between two bodies of guarding a ford on the river arid we are to old the ford so as one party cannot get across to Join the other We can see them from our post up on the skyline about 11 mites from us omittances would permit they gave are watching us pretty his tecellency a loyal reception To saw yesterday morning of these deserving pioneers tween thirteen of our men and some acres of land for each mites from child in their famines all of which ll about minutes was not taken up for these with work enough before them a life- time and having no idea of the mites did future destined fur their children Stanferton There was a lady Kngland sent a lot of things a few others of our Troop a few days They struggled through hunger lam- ago He went off a short distant from the rest and three Boers am bushed him shot his horse made him throw up and took his rifle bandoliers revolver and hat fr6m then him which means out treated Wm vdry airly they often as soon as their back is turned One of our shbt a And now the Doers are driven back These kind sisters have come off the And In hospital theres were content with little and anxious for more j to our Troops but we have not got Among the number elected to office at a town meeting held in the town of York on March 4th pursuant to an Act of Parliament we find that in of whom are burled in Hatter was appointed the our village cemetery where have been Justices as Constable for the Town- iaid so large a portion ship of Vaughan Quant for the Hill and its vicinity man settlement and John Lyon for lots from to John Lyons died Munshaw in I and In Nicholas Millar AND particular lots on which this has not been done Smith Acting Mr report by stating that from the town of York to the Poplar Plains afterwards the road and that as yet the greater part of said distance Is hot passable for any carriage whatever account of the logs that lie in the street for Toronto our nearest suburb at that time now for nearer home- After reporting York ho comes- to Vaughan No clearing complete with no house and nothing done to the street side clearing complied with on south aide the north nothing done No VaughaA clearing complied with but trees ft logs left on the street no fence and a small log house These are to the south of us We will now take the nearest- on the north our village No Vaughan clearing complied with the street cut and logs not burnt and a- very bad place in the road As there no unfavorable report of the lots that now compose we may flatter ourselves that our early settlers did their road work duty bound Mr Stegman winds up his lengthy report as follows SJ5 This the real condition Street when examined by mo ber settled on what is now I am sorry to be under the Klgln Mills is lot Markham slt conclusion ttr the Mr Jurues Kerswclls brick tne residence once stood the In me Street have been the of Mr John the Surveyor most neglectful in clearing the street Mr had been a Lieutenant I have reason to believe that in the Hessian at LouJsbarg s trifle with the Government in many youll find Hut alas others have died and are left Let us this war will soon be For were sure the Boers cant stand much more Then our gallant sister to their homes can return To enjoy the much needed rest they have earned fa And now kind friends I know youll agree To give these brave sisters from over the sea Such a welcome that words will fail to express And give them a cheer for theyve done their immediately opposite to commanded by Verier Loos Continued on Page I y I I-