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[Spy THE OSHAWA DAILY. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930 Eastern Ontario News | Win Merritt Cup Kingston.--The Merritt Chal tenge Cup, for which competitions were held in Kingeton, at the an- pual camp at Barriefield, during {he summer has been awarded to the 1st Hussars of London, On- tario. "aken to WI : x Brockville.--Claude Dunham, who was arrested here last week at the request of Winnipeg police has left for the western city, ac- companied by an officer of the R. C.M.P., to answer to a charge of pon-support of his wife and family. Makes Lovely Drive Kingston.--The new stretch of road between Collins' Bay and Westbrooke which was laid this summer under the direction of the Suburban Roafs Commission makes a lovely drive, The road surface has been widened and paved and attention has been paid to the several sharp turns. Receives Congratulations Lindsay.--Dr. J. Neelands, 8 Mill Street, is receiving the con- gratulations of a host of friends Monday on the occasion of his 92nd birthday. For more than 68 years ha did the people of this district an immeagurable service through his profession. Held 1.0.0.F. Conference Belleville.--Mr, N. J. M. Lock- hart, Grand Master of the Indepen- dent Order of Oddfellows, accom- panied by other Grand Lodge of- ficials,, visited Belleville on Tues- day evening for the purpose of holding a conference for the Bay of Quinte district. Without Office Lindsay.--For the time being at least, the provincial police are without an office, as the process of renovating their old one goes on down at York Street. However it will soon be re-occupled and the better facilities and greater space will make the walt worth- while, More Jobs Provided Belleville.--Monday was a bright day for everybody with the sun ashine and a brighter ene for others. For men needing jobs it was better than usual for there were about 'twenty extra men taken on upon the sewer contracts, it was stated at the city hall by City Engineer Charles Mott. There are now over sixty at work excav- ating on sewer construction. Driver Arrested Lindsay. -- County Constables Barraclough of Richmond Hill and Walker of Markham motored to Dunsford Saturday night, and picked up a well-known farmer, named John Robertson, who is ac- cused of hitting a man with his car while passing through Markham, and not returning to the scene of the accident. Officers Elected Kingston.--At the monthly meeting of Sir Willlam Wallace Camp of Sons of Scotland, the fol- lowing officers for the year were elected: Cnief, Bro. B. Rice; chieftain, Bro. J. Brown; financial secretary, Bro. J. Patrick; chaplain, Bro. J. Duncan; recording secretary, Bro. J. Edgar; marshall, Bro. J. Doug- las; bearer, Bro. J. Ramsay; senior guard, Bro, J. Hall; junior guard, Bro. S. Wassell; auditors, J. Halli- day, J. Mitchell, To Open Bridge Belleville.--The date for the opening of the upper bridge is not quite" determined yet but in all «probability the structure will be opened for traffic about the mid- dle of next week. Sufficient time will have elapsed for the setting process by next week. Pedestrian Injured Peterboro.--A pedestrian, Steph- en McDonald, Bethune street, re- celved an injured leg when knock- ed down by a motor car at the cor- ner of Dublin and Aylmer streets. Injured By Train Peterboro.--Falling to heed the warning blasts of the train's whis- tle, Timmle, Ryan, of this city, five-year-old son of T. J. L. Ryan, was critically injured today when struck by C.N.R. passenger train from Lindsay, near the park and McDonnell St. crossing, Given Hospital Post Kingston.--Willijam Paupst has been appointed chief supervisor at the Ontario Hospital at Kingston, succeeding John Davidson, super- annuated, Mr, Paupst has been on the hospital staff for many years, and served overseas with Queen's Military Hospital. Making Progress Kingston.--Mrs, Milton Joyce, who has been in the Kingston Gen- eral Hospital for some time with a fractured pelvis, as the result of an automobile accident near Odes- sa, is progressing favorably, Mrs. Joyce suffered severe and painful injuries, but is now well on the road to recovery. Poultry Show Held Kingston.--The Kingston Pou try Association annual show of] fancy and production birds opened in the Armouries on Montreal Street on Tuseday. The show this year gives every indication of being the largest ever held by the as- sociation and 400 entries have been received. Face Scalded Brockville.--~Alexander Lefave, 64 William street, Canadian Na- tional Railways car inspector, was scalded about the face by steam from a valve while he was engaged in his duties in the Manitoba yards about 11.15 o'clock. = Landmark Destroyed Kemptville.--Fire of unknown orgin, which broke out in an un- occupied house on the north side of the village, completely destroy- ed one of the oldest landmarks of the village. The building, which was formerly a section of "The White House", an old hostelry, was bullt on the corner of Prescott and Clothier Streets prior to 1838 and since 1881 conducted by the late Thomas Warren, Girls Team Defeated Kingston.--The Canadian Maple Leafs girls' basketball team of Kingston met their first defeat of the season at the hands of Port Leyden by the score of 36 to 2 The game was played in Port Ley- den before a crowd reputed to be the largest that has ever turned out for a baskefball fixture there. Captured High Honors Brockville.--At the Royal Ot- tawa Winter Fair 'held last week | two horses from the George T Fulford stables won high honors, capturing nine ribbons out of nine events entered. Breaks Leg in Fall Lindsay.--Angus J. MacDonald. a cobbler of Fenelon Falls, sus- tained a double fracture of his leg both below the knee, by falling on the slippery pavement. Dr, G. Melody Mike Greets You anada is sold om "Melody Mike." Every Monday night when you tune in on your radio this is the genial old soul who delights you and whose popularity across the Dominjor: is attested by the fact that more than 15,000 fan letters of praise and congratulation have been received in a month by the Canadian Pacific Radio depart- ment under whose auspices "Mel- ody Mike's Music Shop" feature has been sent out over an all- ' Canadian C, P, R. network. This huge fan mail is doubling and at the end of November 970 letters came in on one day. The opinion of radio fans is borne out by the views of radio station authorities ~most difficult of men to con- vince--who state that in their considered opinion, this feature is with one exception the most pop- ular radio offering on the air to- day. Remember too that artists, presentation, and radio outfit are all-Canadian, Parsnips, basket ..... Beets, basket ...%.... Peppers, each .... Herbs, bunch ... Radishes, bunch .... Oranges, per doz. ... Honeydew. Melons, each Grapefruit, 3 for Potatoes, bag Cucumubers, six for lemons, per doz. ... Bananas, per dozen. .. Apples, bus. Do., Snows, 6 qt. .. Oranges, doz. .- Can. Green Peas, 6 qt. basket Eggplant, each Green peppers, basket Poars, Sweet potatoes. 6 lbs Cranberries, qt. ...... Pumpkins, each NO Oe; © ComoUoMCcOoONOoUeS 3 13 23 19 tn TORONTO PRODUCE Toronto dealers are buying prp- duco at the following prices: Eggs--Ungraded, cases return. ud, fresh extras, 63c to pbe, fresh irsts, 48¢c to b0c; seconds 28c to | 29¢; pullet extras, 40c, Buter--No. 1 Ontario creamery solids, 29 to 29%c; No. 2, 28 to 2815. * Churning Cream---speclal, No. 1, 30cc; No. 2, 27ec. Cheese--No. 1 large, colored paraffined and government graded, l3c to 13%c. Quotations to poultry shipper: dle; Graham gave medical aid and had him conveyed to the Ross Hospital at Lindsay. The broken limb had been previously crippled in the Great War. PRODUCE PRICES TORONTO FARMERS' MARKET The following are quotations, re- | tail, in effect on the St. Lawrence | Market, Toronto. Produce-- Eggs, extras Eggs, firsts Eggs, pullest extras ... Butter, dairy per pound 0.28 Do., Creamery, per pound Fruits and Vegetabl®s-- Carrots, ¢ bunches Beets, doz. bunches Onions, dry, 11 qt. basket Cabbage .. ' Cauliflower ........ Spinach, peck ....... Mushrooms, per poun Leaf Lettuce, three for Head Lettuce. two for Parsley, per bunch ., 0,0: Onions, bunch, three for . Cress, three for ... Celery, head ..... Squash, each . 0.70 0.55 0.60 32 0.45 coco ocosoocoe C3 +4 ib id bd 1D 4 = a 0D ST Gaocoonooono ~ for you. HOW ABOUT THE CELLAR? Every time you shake the furnace a fresh coat of dust accumulates on the top of that workbench or on that shelf of preserves, Why not do something about it? Shut off the furnace from the rest of the cellar and make yourself a clean, light room where you can do without donning your oldest clothes. A TEN/TEST Fruit cellar will keep the heat away from what is there and also keep everything free of that clogging ash dust. We will be glad to estimated the cost Oshawa Lumber COMPANY, LIMITED 25 Ritson Rd. North Telephone 2821-2820 something stored are as follows: Joultry "A" Grade: Spring chickens, GIR asin, 18 Over J to 6 lbs, ...17 Over 415 to 5 lbs, 15 Over 4 to 4% 1bs, 13 4 lbs. each and under Fatted hens, over Ibs. Over 4 to 6 Ibs. ... Over 3% to 4 lbs, Old roosters, over 6 Ibs. White ducklings, over 5 Ibs. each Over 4 to 5 lbs, ...12 § Colored ducklings 2c less, Geese and turkeys, market prices. Guinea fowl, per pair, $1.25, "B'. grade poultry 3¢ less, and "C'" grade 7c less than above prices, Dressed Alive Select M.F 26 0a <3 (Selling) Toronto dealers are produce to retail dealexs following prices: Eggs--Fresh, extras, in cartons, 60¢; fresh extras, loose, ©bG8c; firste, 53c; seconds, 33c; pullet extras, 52c. Butter---No. 1 creamery, prints, 33 to 38'%¢; No. 2 creamery, prints, 32 to 32%c. Cheese--New, large, 16%c; twins, 16%.c; triplets, 17c¢c; stil. tons, 20c. Old, large, 27 to 28¢; twins, 28 to 29¢; old stiltons, 28c. Poultry Dressed Chickens, 5 lbs, up ,..,...30-.32 Do, 430 6 1bs. ...... .28-.30 Do., 3% to 4 lbs, .... Do., 3 to 3%; lbs, .... Hens, over 6 lbs, . Broilers Ducks ..... Turkeys Geese offering at the EERE 21-23 CHICAGO PRODUCE FUTURES Chicago, Doc. 10.--Yesterday's ca¥h egg market held wtihout ma. terfal change. Receipts at coun- try points, although jincreasiug, are reported not as heavy as expect. ed, and this has reflecsd jn a better sentiment in regard to fresh stock. Futures opened firm and higher. Offerings extremely light, mor that Government Agencles are proposing to make purchases here as well as in New York during the morning. Top grades pf creamery camo back with fractional gains on gpot butter, but at advance market appeared no more than steady. Fu- tures declined due to poor with- drawals from four markets, after selling up to 29ic on January and 29%c on December at opening. + Open commitment -- December eggs, 611; January refrigerator eggs, 62; December butter, 166; January butter, 493; February butter, 21, Chicago Spot Market -- Butter, extrag, 32c; standards, 30%c; tone, while bidding brisk, due to the ru- |] steady. Eggs, firsts, 206c; tone, steady. New York Spot Market--Butter, extras, 333c no tone. Eggs, firsts, 27¢ to 23c; tone, steady. TORONTO GRAIN QUOTATIONS Grain dealers on the Toronto Board of rade are making the fol. lowing quotations for car lots: Manitoba wheat ----- No. 1 hard, i74c; No. 1 Northern, 67¢; No. 2 do., 643c; No. 3 do., 6lc; No. 4, do., 57¢ (ec.lf. Goderich and Bay ports). Manitoba Oats -- No. 1 344c; No. 2, 33ic, Argentine corn, 76c (c.if. Colborne). MilMeed, delivercd Montreal, freights, bags included---Bran, per feed, Port Gifts That . Gratify A pen dnd pencil set, or a desk set will be a lifelong remembrance of your thoughtfulness. Parker Desk Sets $6.50 up Parker Pens $2.75 to $10 Parker Pencils $3.50 to $5 Waterman's Desk Sets $7.50 up Waterman's Pens $2.75 to 1 $10.00 Waterman's Pencils $1.00 to $5.00¢ Sheaffer's Pens $8.50 to 10.00 Sheaffer's Pencils $3.25 to $4.75 Five hundred pens and pencils to choose from, so you are sure to see 'just what you want", AT THE REXALL STORES Jury and Lovell King E, Simcoe 8. Pnone 28 Phone 68 ton, $20.25; 25; Ontario grain--Wheat, 68c; bar. shorts, per ton, $21.- middlings, $29.25, ley, 32¢c; oatg, 29¢; rye, 45¢; buck- wheat, 60c. CLASS FOR SCOTCH BUTCHERS Ayrshire, Scotland, is starting many novel classes in adult education this winter. tic butchers soon is Recently a course in drama- art was inaugurated, and one for to be launched Then will follow instruction in win- dow dressing, and also in the opera- tion and repair of automobiles, Sixty-three-year-old Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann, the explorer and arch- acologist of London, was married re- cently to Miss Mary Wheeler, aged 27, APPLE SELLING HELPS JOBLESS Fruit Sold at Five Cents Each Earns Money For Workless Providence, R1I.-- Sales were brisk here when fifty men, unem- ployed for months, stood at strate- gic points down-town and sold ap- ples supplied on credit through ef- forts of the Providence Emergency Unemployment Committee. The vital cause involved as well as the tempting quality of the fruit were the chief factors making for the success of the vendors' initial acti- vities. Spectacles hitherto unpre- cedented were common as promin- ent city officials and business men happily -munched apples regardless of decorum usual in public places. All the vendors sold at least one box, earning a profit of $3.25, and most disposed' of two boxes, Each contained 110 apples retailed at five cents apiece. Women vendors wero given sta- tions inside buildings. One woman had a place in the lobby of a store. A woman passer-by volunteered to sell apples for a vendor while he went to lunch, and when he return- od he found his receipts increased by au additional 55 cents. Several persons contributed $2.25, the amount charged for a full box of apples, leaving the vendor a net profit of $5.50 on the box. In one case a father of three chil- dren who previously had only four-~ tean weeks of work in two years, earned the first money to come into his house in five weeks. PLANNING AIR MAP FOR THE LABRADOR Adequate Aerial Survey Would Cost Half Mil- lion, Expert Says St. John's, Nfld.--An aerial sur- vey of Labrador, plans for which have been practically completed, ac- cording to a recent announcement of Sir Wilfred Grenfell in London, would cost approximately $500,000. This was the figure indicated by Alan Butler, president of the De- SHATTERING ALL PRICE RECORDS For Quality Merchandise During the D_CEMBER CLEARANCE SALE Ladies' Blanket Cloth Kimonas, $2.69 A real purchase makes this price possible. You will find floral, conventional and Jacquard patterns in the smartest color combinations, rose, blues, greens, browns, tans, grey and mauve, shawl or tuxedo collars, set in sleeves, pockets, silk cord girdles and braid or satin trim, all sizes. A delightful Christmas Gift. $ rE .,.,.oei BOYS' SUITS, $3.75 Can you imagine quality garments at such low price? Featuring both price and quality, will move these rapid- ly. They are made of fancy tweeds in various shades. Some have bloomers, others knickers, and some have both. Sizes 24 to 30 only. $ THE ARCADE o Haviland Company, on a visit here [complete triangulation a few days ago. 3 survey of | the island could be made, together For this amount plans would | With a series of points accurately show courses of the rivers, their | established as to longitude and approximate watersheds, barren latitude. With the completion of land, wooded areas, and minera) | groundwork, lateral and oblique possibilities where there is no over- | Photographs would be taken, burden. This map would provide | data that would make possible an estimation of the natural resources | of an area including more than have 110,000 square miles. Seaplanes been making notes of the popular would be used, and the same gen-|races between airplanes and trained eral plan carried out as had been {racing pigeons have come to the con- done in mapping Rhodesia, where {clusion that the bird can fly faster accuracy was approximate, ground | than the machine. Not that the surveyors being allowed 1,000 feet birds always win, but it is contended error. that hey could win almost invariably, In his London statement, Sir Wil- | if» When liberated, they did not spend fred Grenfell said the work was |Some time circling to make sure of necessary if tourists were to be at-| their directions. As a result of this tracted to the country. Govern- | handicap, the planes sometimes gain ment officials, however, said they |as muc h as 50 miles, Swallows, had no information on the project. | jackdaws and starlings, which are Mr, Butler gave the opinion that | noted for their speed, have been seen a satisfactory and accurate survey | to outrace planes. Vultures can dive of the island of Newfoundland it-|at a rate of 400 miles an hour. Hawks self, would require three years and |and birds of prey generally have the expenditure of $2,500,000. 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