THESE SIXTEEN BOYS, Win- ' m of a travel scholarship of- terod by the Toronto Board of nitration, have already seen Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax as part of their tour. To- l day and tomorrow the group will be' given the opportunity of see-

oronto Area AGE 1 SGHOOL STUDENTS

. Sixteen boys from the second- try school in the Toronto area. winners of special travel scholar- ships, arrived here last evening ' by a special C. A. charter flight. They Were accompanied by Mr. Bill McLaughlin of Oak- wood Collegiate, representing the

Donald Morrison, Mr. Jack Gre- ory, Mr. Barry Willis, Public ations Office, Toronto and Mr. I Harold Hundert, Eaton’s Coma nercial Studio, all representing * cos of Canada. ' I - group are members of the em Canada ,Educational 1»: which is conducted with the l of Eatons of Canada. They ' met at the airport by Mr. I Carson. Manager of Eaton‘s lottetown Store. 'Foliowing their arrival on the i bland the students had dinner I II _ Gregor‘s Hotel, Brackley 1 Beach and were taken on a tour

ing the beauties of ‘Prince, Ed- ward Island. Pictured above, from left to right, TOP ROW, Mike Turk, Parkdale Collegiate; Brian Dobie, ~Malvern Collegiate; Jack McLean, Harbord Collegi- ate; John Orvis, Jarvis Collegi- ate. SECOND ROW, Eric Skeoch,

ih-ool Stodents From The

Arrive Here

are staying at the Charlottetown Hotel. ‘

This morning the group are scheduled to visit the Confedera- tion Chamber, Fort Edward, St. Peter’s Chapel and ‘Keppoch Beach: At noon they will be the guests of the Rotary Club at their regular weekly luncheon, and in

Toronto of Education; 'Mr.‘ the"afterfi66li' will "warm

perimental Farm and Govern- ment House, where they will be the guests of Lieutenant Gover- nor and Mrs. Hyndlman. '

In the evening the students will

hotel ballroom will follow. ' Tomorrow the Ontario boys

to'Cavendish 'for a swim luncheon at.

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‘ through the National Park via ‘ the Ocean View Highway. They

depart for Moncton, N. B.

Former Geo’town Man Dies .In Hospital 'At Pictou, N.S.

PIC'I‘OU. N. S. (CP) — Milton N.S. and Guy, Georgetown.

be. guests of the Province at a ‘ dinner to be held at the Char- lottetown Hotel. Dancing in the

will drive to Burlington to see the exhibition of famous building replicas at Woodleigh, driving 03 an Shining Waters Lodge. Following a visit to fam- Green Gables and other points of interest the group will

{Humberside Collegiate; Cameron McQueen, L,awrence Park Colle- giate; John Faiczak, Central Technical School; Gino Falconi, Bloor ‘ Collegiate! THIRD ROW, Ray Mickeyicius. Oakwood Col-‘ legia-te; Bill Crew, Danforth Technical. School; Wilson Muir,

Northern Technical School; John Churchill, Eastern High School of Commerce; FOURTH ROW, Bruce Henderson, North Toronto Collegiate; Janis Zichmanis, Riv- erdale Collegiate; Brian Aubrey, Western Technical School; Rick IParton, Central High Schoo of Commerce. ‘

BRISTOL .

The passing of Mrs. I-larry MacEwen, in the P.E.I. Hospital on Friday, follwtng a car not eident early in the Week, was a severe shock to everyone. Dora as she was known to all was spending the Summer at her summer residence, along with her-husband, as they have done for many years, and it was only ,a stunt-distance from their home that the fatal accident occurred To her relatives we extend our most sincere sympathy at this time. "

Dr. J .C. Sinnotit, Montreal, was a musiness visitor to the Is- land Capital last week, the Doc- tor flew down for a short stay to his old home in Bristol where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.R. Sinnott reside. *

The paving of the Morell road firom the main highway to a short distance beyond the church of St. Laurence, in Morell Rear, has been completed and a won- derful job has been done. ‘a job that was sorely needed. Now that this four mile stretch is complet- ed let us not use it for a speed- way and endanger the liVes of others. -

’Mlss Shelia Gauthier has rel turned home from the hospital

after undergoing further treat- ment, we all hope‘ she makes a complete recovery. ',

Miss Agatha MacDonald has ar- rived home; from Montreal, to spend the second month of her two months vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William MacDonald. Miss MacDonald has spent a month of her‘vacstion with friends in Ontario and Que- bec before coming to the Island She will leave again late this month to resume her duties in the big city where she has resid- ed for many years.

Believe it or not. the school bell rings this week in a few of the schools in this vicinity where flail vacations are still in style. Bristol schOol, Morell School, and the Morell. High School, will not open until after Labour Day in September.

Miss Mabel O’Brien, principal of the Bligh School here, attended the Teachers meetings at S.D.U. last week where many import- ant matters were discussed.‘

Mr. Joe MacDonald arrived home from the Camp Hos- pital last week, after undergoing treatment, and anoperatilon that kept him down for several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill McKennla

have arrivedon the Island for

Condition 0t Iniured Said Favorable

Condition of the five victims of a car accident at Valleyfield last Wednesday is reported lilo be favorable.

Jim MacLeod, who suffered minor injuries was released from the Kings County Memorial Hospital on Saturday.

The three MacDonald brothers, Willard, John and Sterling, are still in hospital. Along with a broken arm and leg injuries, Sterling received broken ribs.

Fiiltll victim, Gordon Buchanan, who was flown from R. C. A. F. Station, Summerside on Friday to the Stadlalcona Nlalval Hospital, Halifax where it was discovered he was sulfering from a broken neck as well as a broken hip.

Hospital authorities at Halifax last night said his condition was ufiadmly good." -

Show Historic Sou ris Photos

The show window of the Men’s Shop Souris is attracting the at- tention of both young and old this week. To commemorate their diamond jubilee in business, Boards of Souris have decorate-d their display window with plie- -tures of Souris sixty years ago. These include school and church groups, andnplilctures of some of the early merchants. Styles of the nineties when men wore

Grade

“pedal-pushens” are also featur- ed.

Many old Souris buildings standing in 1898 and since then destroyed by fire or torn down are included. Among these Prow- se Bors. and C. Store, James R. MaoLean Store, The Imperial Building, the James McLaughlan house, the Thomas Kickham store at Souris West and others. NUMBER 5

The old number “5” P.E.I. Railway locomative with crew and Souris loafers is shown at the station in the 1890’s.

Pictures of the first Souris band organized in 1888 and the Souris citizens band of 1905 are also attracting much attention. Maps of Souris showing it in 1835 when it was eleven terms, and in 1863 when it was two villages and in 1880 when the P.E.I. Railways went across the beach, have much historical information which is greatly appreciated by the many who study the display.

a va tion, Mr. McKenna is a brother of Rev. Bhalen McKenna P.P. at Alberton, a former pas- tor here. Bill will be calling on friends in this vicinity before re turning to Boston.

Mr. Herbert O’Brien has re- turned tc Halifax after spending a weekend at his old home here.

Mr. John J. Perry local con- tractor and builder is working in Halifax, N.S. at present. He gave up the fishing some time ago.

Mr. B.T. Myers, City contrac- tor, is erecting the new bank of Nova Scotia building, in the vil- lalge, and expects to complete the job on time.

When a new married couple decided it was time to leave here on their honeymoon, loll— lowing a wedding reception 8 short time agb, they found well- wishers had filled the back of their honeymoon car with new hay, taking it all in stride the couple left with a hearty laugh at the new trick, but still wond- ering how jokers got the car unlocked to put the hay in, and that's still the $64.00 question.

OIL SEARCH An average $30,000,000 a year is spent in western Canada on geophysical exploration for oil.

2 George Hemphill, a \shipwright moved here from George- Iown. P.E.I., in 1940, died Sun- do in hospital where he had been a patient for 21/2 months. Until he became ill in March of this year, Mr. Hemphill was, em- Plotled in a Ferguson Industries limited shipyard. As a boy he W to sea with his father and “at worked on costal schooners Walling between Prince Edward Iit‘md and Nova Scotia ports, -_ Wvors include his wife, the ~ . 1' Martha Gotell of George- . four sons, six daughters. . sisters, Mrs. Victor Rafuse ., Ind Mrs. Alister Stewart, both of ' And Mrs_ Alvin Mac- ~ Mount Stewart, P.E.I. “ iy‘u’fwo brothers, Ivan, Westville,

EASTERN GUARDIAN

FRESH MACKEREL, Wight- ; Win Super Market, Montague.

DANCE AT C.Y.C. Hall, Card-

¢.u m, -

W " $5.“;

“1‘s Orchestra.

PERSONALS,

every Monday night. chr

Requiem High Mass will be lcelebrated at Stella Maris Church {Tuesday with burial here.

i GEORGETOWN

1 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Morrison 50f Seattle, Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kiggins, of Bos- 3ton, Mass, are guests at the lhome of Mrs. Felix Morrison.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack King and family. of Summerside, motored -to Georgetown where they were guests on Sunday of Mr. Kink‘s mother, Mrs. Edna King.

Mrs. (Dr.l‘ Clayton George, ac- companied by her mother, Mrs. S.C. Knight, motored to Halifax, N.S., last' week where they vis~

lent in Hospital in the Nova Sco- tian Clalpital.

Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Scully and family and Mr. James Dal- ton, arrived home on Friday from a motor trip to Boston, Mass.

Mrs. J. Booth Scott, of Ottawa, Ont, is visiting her lather, Mrs.

ited Mr. Knight, who is a pat-. '

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SOURIS 60 YEARS AGO

Three Souris

Beginning Last Century

By G. A. Leard

The average life of a Prince Edward Island retail store has been estimated at nine years. Cer- tainly the mortality rate among young shops is very high and es- tablishments which reach twenty years of age are in the veteran’s class; those which pass the fifty mile post are institutions, while thtse who survive for sixty years demand a round of applause as .they head tor the exclusive hun- died—year bracket to which only a fortunate handful attain.

The town of Souris has three stores whose commencement an- tedlalte the opening of the cen- tury. The Star Grocery which had its beginning in the store first operated in 1867 by the late J.G. Stems, the store of Matthew and McLeaan whose Souris start was in 1869 and the Men’s Shop of Estate W.B. Leard Reg'd which had its beginning in the tailor shop of Waldron B. Leard who opened in Souris on Apnil 26th, 1898.

DIFFERENT IN 1898

This year Leard’s Shop is cele- brating its sixticth anniversary and Lea-rds who think the past is important would like to tum back the pages for their Island friends and give them a peek at Sounis when the town was young and gay and business was dlllf- ferent. For it certainly was dif- ferent in 1898.

The day of the craftsman was still with us. Souris had seven blacksmiths at this time, A.R. MacDonald, Daniel Mooney, Alex Paquet, Joseph Macllnnis, A. Mc- Kie, John McPhee and Timothy Oheverie, all able men of the an- vil who could build a wagon, shoe 3 horse, ‘or make a wheelbarrow with the best of them. Joseph Mitchell who lived where the tel- phone office is now called him- self the harness maker, while James Dumphy, calling himself a saddler lived ’in 'what is now the Joseph A. Chevcrie house, but both were equally skillful in all leather work for four-footed ani- mals. .

The two-footed ones were fully shod, or mostly halfsoled by James Landry, Richard Seaman and Syl Campbell. Trained shoe- makers, they cobbled for a liv- ing but were all capable of mak- ing, and did. at times make; the odd pair of Wellingtons for those wishing a custom job.

FIVE TAILORS

Young Wlallie Leard who came to Souris in 1898 fresh from a win- ter’s course in, New York City at the Mitchell cutting school, set up business in a town which all- ready had four tailors, J ames McQuaid, Norbert Pierce, John McQuaid and Elliel Paquet. “.It was a time of tailor-nude clothes. Only the cheapest of mens clothing was bought off the store tables where they were piled in great heaps, and only the coars- est work clothing (still often home spun) was carved from rough pat- terns and sewn, at home. So the number of tailors is not surpris- ing. They too were craftsmen of great skill taking considerable pride in their workmanslnp and using materials which ensured clothing values never equalled in modern times.

LASTED 30 YEARS

In a time when central heat- ing of public buildings to a mini- mum of 80 degrees in winter time to provide comfort for light-

ly-clad female help was undream—~ ed of, a man’s wedding suit was“

made of twenty-four ounce navy blue‘or black serge with trim- mings to match. It was the next thing to flexible armour plate and perhaps a trifle warm in summer, but warm on the aver- age of thirty times a year, the suit if properly brushed on the shoulders at the end of twenty years, was generally considered good enough for another ten years provided the buttons could be moved sullfiiiiently to allow for a growing girth.

Eustie Shaw the jeweller who lived in what is now the vacant

=E.I. doctor to sit in thelGover-

m this rune. most of them oar-ry- ing but a small line of dry-gods and without a milliner in the la- ei-es’ department. ' MILLINERS

Milliners were important in a time when women wore not ex- actly ten gallon hats,lbut more of the bushel variety, which bra/v- ely borne high on their head car- ried much artificial flora and flauna. The annual rearranging of these justified a mmuincr's exis- tence.

Matthew and McLean who had built the dry goods wing on their store after moving what is now the Leard store down street, had a fine millinery department with Maggie MacDonald in change. They were then as sixty years 1a- ter the leading merchants of the town, carrying everything in hard ware from needles to anchors and everything in dry-goods from cot- ton wa-np to fur coats.

Stems Bros. (Charles H. Stems owner and manager) were occu- pants in. 1898 of the J .G. Stems store, now C.R. White's Star Gro— cery. The J .G. Stems retail-mer- chandising business had ceased in 1896 with the-rent of the store to his brother but was resumed or gain in 1902 when he reentcred the retail fieldafiter six years of private banking. Stern’s Bros mil- lner at this Ilime‘wals Marry Mc- Donald and one of their clerks, D.F. MacDonald later Imperial

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were George B. McEtachelrn, Rod.-

dlie MacDonald and Fred Morrow who in partnership ran a general store for a number of years. They were known to the local humorists as “the Syndicate”, but by 1898 had ceased to do busi- ness.

Stores Had I .

H.H. Acorn house rented the flront room to the new tailor who by August however outgrew the quarters and moved down street to a building then owned by Matt- thew and MacLean, now the pre- sent Leard Shop.‘ The tenant in the east side of this store was a young Charlottetown lawyer, Ar- thur J .B Mellish.

THREE-SUIT STORE

On the second floor of the building Matthew and MacLean kept funeral furnishing and cask- ets. From the variety of occupa- tions the building became known as the “three suit” store, W. B. leard provided the tailored suit. Mellish was an expert in law-suits and the wooden suit or overcoat, clothalined with imitation silver- buttons was the inevitable last ‘suit for everyone. ,

Funerals were still an occasion for the amateur help of fniends without professional training. Death had its dignity for all. Funeral processions sixty years ago in Slouns’ would sometime: see as my as one hundred an Oil agent now retired in Souris. automatons; In on x ses to the music of slow dirges s mmedsta'mgglgosg‘ ’ played by the band' smell” a Tlallelc Pail: haul1 his dental of: “‘0” “Wing Mime ma“ ems {ice in 1898 Dow-n stains th e gliding by 3‘ ‘9“ “files 8” hm“- Merchants blink of P E I did the

. . Kings wr . . . - tsetse. gen who the next year was to re get all black clothes the tailor l‘l’lqu‘Sh his “me “"1 9° In???“ sewed black crepe bands on the mtfitfi'ngqgeggflmmgogflgfi lam Sleeve 0f the“ mmmored George E. MacFarl-alne under the

coats. name of Hughes and. MacFavrllane. COST'OF'LIVING . They did businem in the Imper- If the cost of dy1ng was low iam building which Sixty yea” ago the cost of living was also very stood on the corner where R.J.

low. W.B. Leard's first load of ,- ‘ ~ , - _ coal cost $2548“ his first 10a d MacKenzxe later erected his gar

. age. of cut wood 35 cents. Little won-

. . . THE SYNDICATE der that prov-ided w1th cloth and . , . mmmmgs bought at 8 mg V] ‘ Prekus occupants of this store store the. tailor got only $5. for l ' making a man’s suit. The very ’ ‘

flimst oust/omen James D. Camp ‘ TONIGHT IIIIRTIIIIIIIER s,

bell, Little Harbor paid a. $1‘for \u‘m the making of a pair of pants. ' - Box Office opens 7:30

Show at Dusk

(To be continued)

WASHERS IN STOCK

from $50.00 to $365.00. Gas and Electric 'Models,

2 YEARS TO PAY

Montague Electric Co. PHONE 92 MONTAGUE

ARTl-FlCIAl. INSEMINATION ‘

Have calls in by 10 am for service same day. No late calls or excuses for them will be accepted. Any calls after 10 am. will be left till next day. l

Lloyd MacKinnon.

NOTICE.

Taxes due Kilmuir school must be paid before September 10th. After that

date names will be pub- lished and handed to solici- tor.

Trustees.

Dan MacDonald the first journey- man tailor to work in the Leard shop got $20.00 a month from which he paid $2.25 a week for room and board. The new tailor paid twentyfive cents for a dress shirt and sixty cents for a new straight razor. Candy was ten cents a pound at Seaman's who also had the Guardian for sale and served ice-cream.

Four doctors guarded the health of Souris and vicinity in 1898. These were E.B. Muttart and Pe- ter A. McIntyre both of whom hadserved' theHouseomen— mans, the 1 being destined in ~ _ ayear’stimetobethefiirstp. " ‘

THE, YEARLING

COMING TUE. and WED.

nm’s chair at Charlottetown. Dr. Angus MacLealn who had come in 1882 and A.A. McLellaln who had been in Souris then for nine years bore the heaviest brunt of coun- try pnaotice at this time. DRUGGISTS

A noted druggist of the period E.P. Ford styled himself a phy- sician and was called Dr. Ford but his practice was more in the dispensary than the sick room, though all the doctors at this time generally mixed what they prescribed. Other druggists in ed James Ferguson who came to in 1896 as manager of Johnson and Johnson’s Souris branch, David Sutherland who practiced in what is now Gill. lespie’s snack bar and J .H. Hoop-

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The latter had been one of the . first occupants of the Leard store- building when it stood in Mat- thew and McLean's yard where it had been erected for use as a this same building occupied in 1898 by lawyer Mellish had ear- lier been a dental parlor of the drug-gist’s brother Sam Hooper.

The Souris barlbers in 1898 were Frank Bushey and Dan McElacll-

ern.0neofllheolderbalnbers,

master several years earlier. His assistant in 1898 was Marshie Pa- quet later well remembered for his confectionary store. T h e r e

were many small general stores

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