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VOL. XVI THE LIBERMPRINTINM Puausms HeUSE RICHMOND HILL, ONT. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING T. F. MCMAHON. DR. LANGSTAF EB. wma SESLEY. Graelu-Lto Tor: K10 EU. 1:. LANCISMEE, M3,, THCRNHIL L. Reside11ce+Tw ephoue cmm. am [03. Reliable G @6915 3'01 W. J. WILSON, W. ROGERS, DENTIST, \Vill visit Richmond Hill Wednesday and Sutufi day afternoon of each Week. J. T. McElroy, VETERINARY SURGEON Grad uu with (11 RICH‘A 6 Aston a lfl‘ $1 per annum, in adVanC’c.1{ ‘6 sismut Sur: Add Office homs~8 to 10 11.121 StolGa.m.; 6108:1432. Ali RICHMOND HIT. BUSINESS CARDS. THORNHILL, ONT., VETERINARY DENTIST. CONCORD, - ONT. Collin: V17 22-2/1; lZEfi £12? USED BY @ixe fiibml 1‘43" Iglfiflfi‘afléa’ $1.85 EH ABVAHBE. Veterinary Surgeon OFFICE“ HOURS EDITOR & Pnommroh Fw'o door; north of pest mnumcacion by private all outstanding places. Dr. A. Rabin-son. KOND h’we FICE HOURS m.; and 6 lo 8 p. m. the Ontario Veterjnary College, , from the ()ntuno Veterinary _ will_visi§ Maple on Monday and mmiral. gL’c’terinarg )BINF o Uuivers Surg was. 1 form)“: I sfisGEoN DENTIST â€"-Axnâ€" 5321:1311. 6a} nttle and other domesticut the latest and most up- Calls. promptly atiended dale stati er of Q .latt .‘ZOtvL' 14th 29th 4 Lb 7f sitVA Member Col!ego Ont, two ears?- Geueml espita . L.D‘S. A‘Y 4th 'euu 136d who Robinsn if Sunday, 2151'. of each month do augngh, L, Ont. AFF. eoich month ofiice. 'Tel line with n require row a Ont “V Barristers. Solicitors, 86c. Toronto Officeâ€"N315 Toronto Street. Richmond Hill Oxfice open cvery Saturday. NOTARY PUBLIC. A G F LAWRENCE LAWRENCE & URMISTUN. VIONEY T0 LOAN AT bOWEST CURRENT RATES .«M’zgmgge 42 yawmm Toronto Officeâ€"34 B m: of Commerce Buildmgs, 19 King Sheet West. I‘hornhill Officeâ€" Post Office every Wed- nesday from 10 to 12 a. m. collections in City and Countrv promptly attended to. Money toloau LEM-3H. LlNDSEVé’a EVANS, Licenseu Auctioneer for the Con Unmno and Peel. Goods sold on ‘ GeneralsuleF 0 stock, etc" promp to an reasonaule rates. P. 0. addre‘ Licensed Aucti poctfully sum influence. 31m I‘e] ephom cnmmssxoann m In: HIGH COURT OF JUTICE, &c. ssuer of Marriage icenses. Mr. T. Herbert Lennox will be at Kelly‘s Hotel, Richmogq Hi‘ll overv WednesduyJor the transâ€" Licensed Auctioneer for the County of York Saies attended Lo 0:] shortest notice and at rear sonable rates. Patronage soli’cite’d. Residence Maple ROBINSON, LENNOX& MACLEOD Every accommodation to guestfi. Board Der (My amyliauc of liquor menial Rates 1 THE PALMER HOUSE RICHMOND HILL. Having ‘efitted the above house I am prepared to [mush the best accommodation to boarders and the anveiling public. ~ Best brauds of Liquors and Cigars. Excellent stabling'uno efl‘lcienc hostlers. Sample mums for commercial men First-class L.very in conâ€" nection Nov 26â€"91 REQHABfiSGN HQUSE, MAPLE DRESS - MAKER, RICHMOND HILL. A - CALL - SOLICITED. Funeral Fur “fillings Alw a y s on lland sensed Auctioneer for the (‘ounty of ank neml sales of impleme' ts, tumitnre. httnndin: nber. aim, attended on the shortest nohce am reasunuble rates. Stock sales a. specialty ‘Lrouage solicited. P. U. address Unlouville. GuG. S. LINDSF :ensed Auctioneer for the County of York, re- )ctfully solicits your patronage and friendly ineuce. sales attended on the sLortest notice '3 A reasonabe rates. Randal-ass King BABBISI‘" ES, SOLICITORS AND NOTARIES RICHMOND HILL POST OFFICE. Undo J. B. MILLER E9 gym-W9 @fla§?$§3 EWfi‘a‘ififl», Bar Isu-rs, Solirnors, d1» Barristers. Solicitors, Notaries mild Conveyancere. 158 KING STREET EAST. TORCNTO MISS t. HARRISON, .1 Auctioneer for the Counties of Ymk and Peel. Goods sold on consignment suleF 9 stock, e_t.c.! prpmptly attended tic Buildings, 23 Scott St.. Toronto. WRIGHT BROS, 1e hotel is fitted up with all the modern :8 for health and comfort. Best brands Hmd cigars. Sample rooms for com- traveliers. 'Busses meet all trains. 00 per day. TORONTO AND AURORA Jmnos C. Stokes. makers d: Embnlmrrs, Salem Eckardt J. T. Saigeon, .5. .l. Luna”, I‘EEB‘Y JOHN W. EVANS. WM. RICHARDSON. Proprietor £25m. JOHN KELI RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, MAY 31. 1894. In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Liéerty; in all things, Charity." W S Unms'r-m, L L B E. J. B. DUNCAN LYON LINDSEY UMO'NVILLE Money to Loan Promietor‘ A few days agn. the trustees of the School Buard received a cimulur from Dr. 'J. G. Hudgins. historiographer fur the Edllcatiun Department, requestinu lnfur umtiun in cmmection with the develop Ink'llt uf education in the Village of Rich- mund Bill, to be embodied in a docu- mentary history of educatlun in Upper Canath from the year 1791. under ll’le in- utructinns of the Minister of Educatiun. Une of our cnrrespondenta by request has written the following paper for the reall- ers of I'm: LIBERAL :â€" Education began in Richmond Hill under vely primitive circumstances. Pre- vious to the introduction of the common ECllUUl system, our boys and girls stood but a slim chance of obtaining even the rudiments of education. If “ignorance is bliss” the majority of the juveniles of that day must have been ii happy lot. There were, howevar, in the early his~ tory of our village, a few families who did not believe with the poet that “a. lit- tle learning is a dangerous thing,” but a little kmmledge, if it was not profound, was better than none ; so, if there hap- pened to be among them a man who could read and write, With time on his hands, his servica were secured and his abilities UtilDZed for the bclwfil of the rising gen- eratiun. Our first. schnnl first held in a. “dc- Bertcd flettlemeut duty hnuse,” nilh earth fluur and pine blncks for seats. 'l‘hu Inas- ter’s desk was a. hewn plne lug slab, with legs ml the same mutenal. The booksâ€"«ll sorts and sizesâ€"(home supplies),were few and Iar between, and were shoved along the class until each scholar gut his share «:f the lemon. The first passable supply of bmks nf inetrllctiOn [hut arriVed in our village Was impurted irmu England by James Miles, Esq , and reached here two months from the (late of the order. Thay “ere mpplied by the British and Foreign B.ble$nc1cty. Any daugt-r arising from the use M Lhe Bible,as a text bnmk,in Lhe The term generally lasted llmnugh the winter ummhs unLil “ sugar making time,” when all the youngsters were wanted m carry sap and sticks to keep the “kntle bilin.” After that,t.here was always aumelhing to do at, home, so the rest of the year was "Vacatinn." Cunumm schuulfiud not the!) nccurmd tn the unsophisticated mind of those early days. Unr vii'mge, with a. very indifi‘wrmn knnwledge 0: management and dlsmpline. adopted the public sclmnl system nf 1816 the gem) of what has ‘mcnme one of Lhe unblesl institutiuns in uu1‘Dun1iniun,aud the admiumun of visitors from many lands. The school,being an infaht mdusl‘ry of those days, received its share of govern- ment assistance from the legislative grant of £6,000 fur the payment of teachets an% the purchase of school supplies,wllich was afterwards greatly increased. This was an inducement for our peoule to build their first school hullSB. It was the Second hewed lug building erected in the village, showing our aquncemtnt in architecture and public spmtlts fuunda- tiun was laid in 1820, in a small clear- illg.a cnuple of rods somh nf the present school site, nhich was then covered with forest. lee all large public undertak~ nu;ch took some time in Its erection, but when built was a. substantial structure, doing duty as a, sclmul house, place ml worship, ahd ann Hall,f‘ years, when it gave way 1 improyement to its brick from Snrfy, England, was our first rclmolmaster. He “ taught the young idea. hnw to shoot” intrltectlmlly, un what, was then considered a liberal sti pend or twelve dollars a quarter, and board aroundâ€"two weeks in a family. Tradition informs us that he reallv eurde the whole of his magnificent. sal‘ ary, for he Was intensely interested in the education of the young, and hunted up every clnld ()ld enuugh to get there. He put the “Truant Act” in operation long before ille Legislatulejunnched It. for after fnur u’clock the parents of an ll] pusikimis to day are gi‘aieful for the edu catinnal privileges they then enjoyed Up to 1866, the public school was sus tained by the Rate bill,with all its ulecc Liouable features, but with us the an” ment that, prtrperty should be assessw for education. as well as for protection early prevailed. In l8(57,its dHUI'S Wen Hirowu open to all who choose to enter \Vhenvthe village set I housekreping for itself in 1% of the Ciewy Regurve fund 847 M 1 . i Benjamin Barnard, a gentleman PM! AND PRESENT. Our Schools. to its brutk succesm "nr noariy m the m u; protectiu duors we ‘3 to ente mnuicip lll' lace n! thirty Arch hf >r builx 450 \ar Richmond Hill High School was estab- lished Dec.2,18§l.[ts first ac‘oommodstion for the dispensing of superior education was in the house now occ‘lipied by Mrs James Jenkins. It was afterwards located in a new building erected by A. Law, Eeql Meantime arrangements were made for a more suitable accommodation. A committee composed of the Rev. James Dick, chairman; G. P. Dickson Esq., secretary; and Messrs. Teefy, Col. Bridg- ford and Dr. Langstalf, with money raised by subscription, and some assist- ancu from the Government, obtained by Amos Wright. M P., erected a commodi- ous building for the sum of $640 on the school site donated by Squire James Miles. Builder Mr James Newton, sen. Wii h one exception. all these active pru- moters of education in our village have passed nver_to the majority beg/0nd. ' In 1853 the iruateei 0f ihe Fuhlic and High sclmuls became a united Board.The fqlAluwillgr genflgmeg were “the _ear1i_93t rflicurs vi the joint Trustee Bum-d: The va. D E. Blake, Amos Wright, M.P., (:‘r. P. Dickson, J. P , Rev. James Dick. The secretaries were G. P. Dickson, qu. James Dick, M. I‘nefy, J P‘; treasurers, J. K, Falc:»hhridge. Em, J.P. Mr. Wm; Clark was the first head master, at a. sul- ary of $320 and three fourths of the achnnl fees N0 ach'ml building is complete with- out a. bell, and no respectable bell with high aspirations is at home unless it is snepended in u. cnpula. In 1851,3«1r M 'l‘eely. trustee, was appointed a. commit- tee to obtain the required indispensable. Applying to '1‘, D. Harris, hardware mer- chant, Torontn; he was shown a row of bells to select. from. The dealer lauded them all, but pointing to one of superior tune nuJ finish, aaid,in an llndertunc,t_hat he would sell that one for less, because there was on it a cross,which depreciated Us value. Mr. Teefy oqnietlv remaxked that. he did not think that. the cross was any very serious objection, and said that he would take the bell. It now swings aloft, above the assembled wisdum that gathers below. This Dell has a history. Over fifty years ago, the reanutiUnary government of Spain,pressed for money, and animated With a spirit of reform, couliECuted a. large number of church and Convent bells. These bells were sent to the city of New York to be dispOSed of to the best admntage. Some of them were restored to the use for which they were consecrated. but by far the greater num- ber were scattered abroad among schools. railways, uteamboats and factories. There is no doubt that the one that has called the past and present generation of Rich- niund Hill juveniles to obzain scholastic attainments, in years gone by, has rung out its peals over hills and Valleys of sunny Spain, calling the faithful to the ‘ devotions of the hour, for on it is the ‘ cmss, and the inscription “ 1‘ MARIA Y 1 JOSE. 1817.” The old High schuol outlived its useful. ness, and a new High school building was erecned in 1873.“ a case of $5,000. Mr. John Harris, architect; Messrs. Newton and Davis builders. The trustees were tho Rev. James Dick. chairman; Robert Marsh, Esq.. secretary; and Messrs. David Boyle, N. C. Wallace, Wells, Mc- Nair, Sheppard, Trench, l‘eefv, Lang- stafl', Line and VVllllrlLu Patterson. Headmaster, James Cruzier, HA. In 1877,in ordur to stimulate sindyflie trustees offered a prize in banks to each pupil who passed the intermediate anm- inzuion. The first winners of the prize offered were Master Fred Lawrence and Master James Stewart. The muster rull of headmasters, why for nearly half a century have endeav- ored to “form the common mind" in our village-fin as follows: Wm. Clark. Jumcs Forrest, Rev. James Boyd, Rev. Samuel Johnson, M.A., Rev. Rubh Rndgurs, Arthur 0016 Verner, Louis E. Evans, B. A., James M; Dunn, Wm. Bond, Jsmqs W’lndear, A. M. Lufi'urty, B. A., J. W. Juliy, R. A. Robertson, M. A., James Cruzxer, B.A., James McMurcliy, B.A., 'l‘hos.Carscaddeu.B A ,VV.lVchnide,R.A., J. McBride,B.A., '1‘. 1-1. Reddiu, B A., IIMcCuaigB‘A , and J A.Monrue,B.A. The preseuL teaching etafl of our High and Public. suhuula consist uf the follow- iug: Na! Robertson, B. A., princxuul; Mr. Alex. McLean. assistant; Mr. J. E. Clubine and :MJSS E. Newtnn, intermedi- atefimd Mrs.l\l,\’\’110y,who has been over the primary department sixteen years. and a. member of the Senate of Toronto Univer§it!; 'Jphn R. ATeefyA, 7B.VA., Supef- inr and I'Dresident of St. Michael's Co!- leze, Toronto, also member (if the Sen: 2160 of Toronto University, and edian M the catholic Register, and George Didi- aon, Esq., Principal and First English Master of Upper Canada College. These all ie‘flect credit on tllceir alma ma’tér. 'l‘he Annu: “Given fair weather, our exhibition is a pronounced success.” The above and similar expressions could be heard ten days ago. when the directors of the Richmond Hill & Yoiige Street Agricul- tural Society were completing arrange- ments for their Annual Spring Fair to be held on the 24th of May. But, as the rain came down in torrents day ufte‘r day, until every field and park was like :‘i. swamp, the prospects for a successful time grew less and less. The directors, however, did not feel justified in past- Doning the fair, knowmg that even ‘one warm day, with the assistance of old sol and his drying propensities, would be sufficient to put the park and race track in a reasonably good condition. Many visitors came to town on the evening of the 23rd, and we learn from tne seeie- tary that up to that time the number of entries for the next day’s fair was larger than any previous year’s at 3 correspond- inz date. But when the Queen’s Birth- day was ushered in cold and wet, the most hopeful Could only look forward to a. day of partial success. The gate re- ceipts were smaller probably from the fact that ihe offiCcrs announced early in the day that the horse races and bicycle races could not take place, owing to the mix-y condition of the track. There \\ as some good stock on the grounds, but many more noble animals would have been on exhibition had the Weather been at all favorable. Everything considered there was a good display in the Agricultural Hall. Mr, Wm. Trench had on exhibition a. number of line carriages and waggons, and those from the shops of Mr. James Macdonald, Thornhill, also had i’nany admirers. Every rig on exhibition had an excellent finish, and the workmanship was a credit to their respective makers. Mr. 0. J. Brown‘s organs and sewing machines occupied the south Western corner of the building, and opposite was [he display of last yea-’s grain. roots, the, which Was very creditable. Mr. QUEEN ’8 BIRTH-DAY. Gen. McU maid shuwed two sets of light harness, which were neatly finished. A Wheel plow, munufactured by Fleury 6’5 Sons; Stoutfville, with Tinkler’s patent wheel attachment, was examined by farmers‘ and was pronounced to be one of the best kind of plows made, in the ladies' department nearly every class was filled. A guud deal of the work was new, and so keen was the competition that. in sume cases, the awarding of the prizea to those best entitled tu them was no easy task for the Mir judges. The writing and drawing by pupils from Public Schools was hell executed, but it is to be regretted that teachers in rural sections do not stimulate the pupils by encourag- ing them to enter in the cnnipetition. The Richmond Hill Band were in their beét furin, and plaved some Very tine selectiuns during the afternoon. When the min came on, the Band continued their sweet strains of music in the hall. The Hilly accident of the day oc- curred ahout 5 11 111., when the ouncert platform gave way, just as the band had finished playing their last selection. Furtnnately no person was hurt. but one or two pieces uf furniture from S'tvage’é show rooms, which were on the platturni as an exhibit, were more nr less damaged. The tulluwing is the prize list: HORSES IMPORTED DRAUGHT Stallion nucdâ€" D 0 Steele Sucking cult by St. Legerâ€"John Hart, ’1‘ F Boyntun. Padget. F1“); Gr gsl‘liwg 2 David Lvnet, James McLean bursaâ€"Yew: Buyuton, Jan Bruod mare gum WuOlvltun. Filly or â€"\Vm Watson, '1‘ W4 horsesâ€"R H Ellintt, JUDGESâ€"Geo Guru James Legge. Stallian 5 gelding 2 } Furs-Shir. A Marsh «33 Stallion a; Stailion 3 ye (Cunt Richmond Hill, May 24, 1894 Brood mare agedâ€"David Lynef McD [Single copies, 3 cts. CANADIAN DRAUGHT CARLIAGE Hons“ Byear oldâ€"C Biun ,‘mll‘ oldâ€"Geo Pa Filly or geldnng 1 1 ul Fair and Evening Concert. lENEnAL Gurmley ADSTERS mlurton. F Bovnt gelding and uppumte was u ’3 grain. mots, creditable. Mr. :1 two sets of light RPOSE .hn ames .Tas Torrance No. 48 Span uf McLean. year old Span of il‘ art,