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King 111 Phone Aurora EVANS newmarket Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Phone 5 St and Surgeon Phone n by Appointment residence corner of and Tecumseh and Surgeon ABET ARK1NSTALL jgtefcPhyftlclan St by Appointment Office 915 ft Arthritis IieY BUILDING Appointment IEOUS IP Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling JOHN DALY Expert Watch and Clock Repair Gorham St or Phone Newmarket ALL WORK GUARANTEED m V ClJnlc Hours S WW appointment Newmarket THE VARIETY OF DESIGNS in our collection of MONUMENTS Is such that meet almost any require- both a to kind and cost also make memoriaLs to order ottvtry description find our work excellent always and service prompt and reasonably priced and MAIN ST NEWMARKET j r AUTO BRICK BLOCK and CARPENTRY WORK TILE SETTING and ESTIMATES PHONE Brookes Main St 3 Newmarket T Wfifi ad in g the tenth installment of a continuing Story of Sharon from its founding to the present story was written after aimost two years of research and will we believe a major contribution to know ledge of the past The remaining installments will follow weekly The following is probably the only firsthand description of the early Sharon Band to be ob tained Mackenzie tells that he attended a preparative meeting of this newly establish ed sect where around a table or men and six or eight young women were arranged first tune played was Darlington J and each performed on the vio- Jesse and Ben jamin Dunham on first and sec ond clarionets Charles Doan on a bassoon Richard and Hugh on concert horns Job Hughes on a violin Ira on a flageolet Charles Haines and Joshua Harris on the Ger man flute Judah and on octave flutes It was very delightful Westminster was the next tune after which the females sang a psalm to the music of Cornish they concluded by performing a solemn Scottish air The author expressed high anticipation for the music to be heard when the large fulltoned and softset organ built by Mr of York shall be set up He tells too that at the meet ing for worship there was a con gregation of approximately persons that the women singers had very fine voices and all were dressed in white As a matter of interest a num ber of the books used by the musicians and singers are still in existence Mr Charles Levis of Street has several of them and they are in splendid condition Mr Dav id a grandson of David Hughes of Toronto also posses ses some of this music which he prizes and uses Fame of Sharon From this time forward the names of Sharon and Music be came synonymous This brass band was accorded a prominent part in the religious service and earned a good reputation for it self- It later became the famous Silver Band when about the year a set of silver instruments was purchased at Boston at a of From to several of tho bandsmen purch ased own instruments in New York The two bass horns owned by Charles and George were Ocu larly fine and were bought ai cost of 125 and 145 respective ly Other members of the band secured their instruments by assistance from the funds of the Society Anna Doan played the bass horn in this famous band Hannah Graham and Hannah each played the comet Jesse special instrument was the clarionet of which he was a master J D Graham was a good cor net player Job Hughes played the bassoon until As soon as he stopped playing the in strument was placed in a corner of his home Job Hughes was a martyr to arthritis David Hughes a son of Job took a leading part in cornet work as long as he resided in Sharon After he moved to Bolton he be came the first leader of the Citi zens Band May In Temple at Sharon is a photograph of this band of 1805- Absalom John D Gra ham Amos J Hughes Daniel Jesse Jr Jesse the leader Charles David Amos Wilson George Charles Graham At the Town Meeting House a long table extended between the front and back doors and around this the band sat and played sacred music The wom en sat on one side and the men on the other David Hughes in his Recollections speaks of the in his fathers home The keys and pedals were removable and often the instrument was placed in a wa gon for conveyance to Holt and other nearby places when David Willson held meetings Jesse frequently was asked to play for dances on the boat excursions around Lake but he never permitted his family to take part The de termination of one Sharon Wo man Maria Graham wife of Job to study music was shown when she carried the to the pig pen where she could bo by herself She trained herself to be a splendid musi cian References in Print A few references to this fa- ACROSS THE SEA Hi Newmarket Era aid Express An Newmarket England band which had appeared in print have been preserved In January the celebrated Sharon Band plan to give an en tertainment at Uxbridge and Stouffville Friends in those lo calities may reckon on a rich treat for Sharon musicians axe hard to beat At the June Feast in 1861 the Band appeared in their new uni forms of blue In the Shar on Silver Band was engaged to play at the Newmarket Domin ion Day celebration In Sep tember of these players again were newly uniformed at a cost of 300 They looked splendid at the Feast The uni forms were made by Mr R Smith of Newmarket In 1871 the band went to Tor onto to play at the St Patricks celebration and the following year competed in a band tournament at the East Fall Show held at Sharon Prizes were offered in values of 40 15 and and the evening concluded with a grand promenade concert When Dr D W returned to Can ada to take up practice in New market the silver band serenaded him at his fathers residence To celebrate the Royal Birth Day in Sharon put on a grand en tertainment of field sports and a sham fight A concert follow ed in the evening under the aus pices of the Silver Band at which Newmarket Band assisted Not One Whit Behind In January of the follow ing appeared in the Newmarket By Newmarket Journal It is the afternoon of the August Bank Holiday After a glorious Sunday which tempted even me a real stayathomeSunday man to pack the family into the car and make the 60mile trip to the coast coaches and cars have been streaming through to the seaside all morning despite a gloomy weather forecast The forecast has proved only too true for about midday the clouds started to dispose of their contents and now three hours later it is still raining steadily Knowing that duty called me elsewhere the family has gone to the cinema where is performing more of his deeds The duty call was to the local sports ground where a sports and gala was due and would un doubtedly have beckoned many hundreds But what a scene of desolation The radio is trying to keep the organizers cheerful but Hags are sodden as they flap and the boxing ring promises anything but excitement In the pavilion a few hopefuls are watching the clouds between games of darts and trying to make up their minds whether to postpone the function or keep on hoping The outlay has to be considered and regular calls are being made on the telephone to those who record the rainfall to find out if sufficient has fallen to gather the insurance money Having Jeft them to it and be ing in a state of isolation for a couple of hours I wend my way back to the office for no news paper man is without some odd jobs especially with press time only a few hours ahead Some of those odd jobs are completed and the weather has made it im possible to face the others One task however has boon troubling my conscience for some time past and it is a let ter to Canada we even have vehicles travelling through the town much faster than miles an hour All the roads are signposted 30 and the traffic police take in a regu lar half dozen offenders but still the cure is not complete The one remarkable feature and we must be thankful for it is that the tremendous volume of holiday traffic which has pas sed through in the last few days lias done so without injury What we describe as the new post office in the near fu ture will remove one more However others still remain and hit the eye as one wanders along an otherwise very attractive main street And now a pleasant task com pleted I look forward to holi day time It is not Cornish cream and cider this year but a tour of the industrial and historical north It is surprising how we can live only 100 miles or so from it yet never visit it I had better add that a year old son has had something to do with the decision ELECTROLUX Cleaner and Air Purifier The worlds most Imitated Cleaner Fred Palmer Sales and Service Newmarket Phone IRQ FIREMAN Era As is customary to keep Speed Violators you posted on matters relating to our social amusements as well as other weighty matters I have assumed the prerogative of a correspondent and announce to you that I attended the Sharon reunion held in the town hall Sharon under the auspices of the Skating club You may write about your Newmarket reunions but we consider that Sharon is not one whit behind you in either ele gance of selection or ability of execution The large hall was crowded A gentleman of the neighborhood was manager and opened the entertainment with appropriate address The well- known Sharon band was first in troduced by a choice selection It is no trouble for that band to discourse sweet music The Glee Club sang The Farmers Home Miss of sang the Spirit that Loved Thee by Miss Followed an orchestral selection from Mozart L Willson sang Bonnie Blue Flag and Mr rendered a comic song J Edmund contributed a reading from The Pickwick Pa pers J Hughes sang Of the Thousand Years for which he was heartily encored and to which he rcsixmded by Tramp Tramp Tramp the Boys arc Marching The artists were re peated in the second half of the program with the addition of a reading by John Stokes The Union Jack Not One to Sharon In November of large posters had been put out adver tising a concert in aid of the An glican Church newly opened The night was dark and the road was very muddy The horse led the way The conceit was opened by the old Sharon Silver Band playing Grand March by Wade I have hoard many amateur bands but never one equal to Sharon The Shar on Choir sang in a style other choirs would benefit by copying The program consisted of a piano duett by the Collins of Newmarket and a song by Miss James of Newmarket Miss Jenny sang The Gyp sy Girl She had a fine voice and a good command but we oldfashioned people like to hear the words as well as the tunc I feel proud of our local talent Mr A A Ramsay of Newmar ket also sang Really Mr Editor if there is a band in Her Majestys Do minion which can touch the glor ious notes of the National An them it is the old Silver Band of Sharon Yours truly Char lie Our Newmarket since last I wrote has plodded fairly well its usual course We have had sev eral race meetings and there are a number of holiday visitors and American twang is now an everyday feature of life and many of us have made good friends with the servicemen and their families In fact those long sleeky cars with 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