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Oshawa Daily Times, 6 May 1931, p. 10

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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931 purg.--Ignoring the probability increased levy to be made on yn by the counties, Cobourg struck a tax rate of 52 1-2 public school supporters and lls for separate school sup- This represents an incerase and one-half mills rate. Council decided also that ight-Saving should bo in effect nidnight on May 31, and stay in te until midnight of Labor Day. for Crippled Children Predict- eterborv'.--That the time would doubtedly come when Ontario suld have a School for Crippled dren just as it now has schools he blind, the deaf and the men- deficient, was the prediction of , W. G. Martin, Minister of Pub- Welfare, in addressing a joint meeting of Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs last night. jan Injured "Kingston.--Delmar J. Cherry, 33 Eas ou. chief electrician at the Steamship Company elévator 'Cataraqui Bay, suffered back in- s Monday morning when he was struck by a steel hatch stanchion on tthe grain boat Winona when it be- came entangled in the ropes of the . Mr. Cherry is superficial wounds § on the back and bruised muscles, . Verdict of Accidental Death Kingston.--A coroner's jury presid- over by Dr. Sheldon, of Sharbot ¢, at Arden, returned a verdict accidental death," in the case of : man Newton, Rockwell Newton : Archibald Scott, who were killed at a level crossing over the C.P.R. at Arden last Monday, when a train hit 'a motor truck: in which they were riding. : Half-Century with Firm Kingston.--J]. H., Hoppes has just L gompleted 50 years' service with the North American Telegraph Company. He is general manager of the com- pany and local manager of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway Telegraph Com- pany. As a young man, Mr. Hoppes started as a messenger for the Mon- * treal and Dominion Telegraph Com- i at Deseronto, of which the * "Rathbun Company were agents. He came to Kingston as manager in 1902, May Extend Diocese t= Kingston--Some of the leading An- glicans of the old Diocese of Ontario, _ 'the first' to be established in Upper i Canada, expect that if the limits of i the Diocese of Toronto are reduces to the City of Toronto and York County, and a suffragan is appoint- ied for Peterboro, the limits of Ontar- Diocese will be extended westward Trenton, perhaps to include Co- and Port Hope. Ontario Dio- over last cese is now small as compared with Ottawa and Toronto. Close Post Office Brockville--The post office at Out- let Leeds county, has been closed by the Post Office Department, accord- ing to a recent announcement, on the inauguration of rural free deliv- ery in the district. Mail matter is now delivered on rural route No. 4, Lansdowne. Farmer Loses Eye Cornwall.--While Arthur Baker, a farmer living near Chesterville, was endeavoring to remove a nut from a plough with a cqld chisel, the chisel became stuck and he struck it with a sledge hammer, The -rhisel struck him in the eye, which it was found necessary to remove at the Cornwall General Hospital. : Conducted Many F \! Kingston.--Robert J. Reid, one of the best known furniture dealers and undertakers "in this section of the province, believes he has established a Canadian record for he has con- ducted 11,500 funerals in the fifty- fiv- years, that he has been in the undertaking business. Ohio Man Suicides Brockville. -- Information has reached Crown authorities here of the suicide at Ivy Lea, Ont., in the Thousand Island, where he spent the winter and spring, of J. Harold Hayden, aged 51, member of a well known Columbus O., family. He slashed his left wrist with a razor blade three times and bled to death. It is understood that Mr. Hayden had been melancholy for gome time and was also in {ll health, He was a prominent sums- mer resident of th Thousand Islands, occupying Fairyland," one of the show places among the St. Lawrence, near Alexandria Bay and spent the winter with a family at Ivy Lea, on the Canadian side of the river. Two Hurt as Auto Upsets Lindsay. -- A motor fatality took place Saturday night on the Cambpray-Lindsay - road about a half mile east of the Cambray School, when a car containing Wil=- frid Hdmilton, his wife and two children, in passing another car took to the ditch, turning over twice and causing fatal injuries to Hamilton. 4 Large Pickerel Caught Trent River. -- James Cook was successful for fishing for the first time this season on Friday night, in landing a fine pickerel measur- ing 30 inches in length, the girth 15% inches. Mr. Cock used a minnow for bait and. caught the fish at the big pier; there were several others fishing at the same place, among them was John Gar- neau, who was also successful in landing two pickerel, Lut not large ones. away to his death, When the light wagon cut a corner too sharply the horse took fright at the noise of the wheels striking the curb and ran away. An another street intersection the swaying wagon again struck the curb and the tot was thrown to the pavement and suffered a fractured skull, . Yo Have Narrow Escape Peterboro. -- Two roungsters narrowly escaped : injury while playing about an empty lot on the southeast corner of McDonnel and Aylmer streets. The ground sud- denly caved in under them, fall. ing about three feet, and the hole opened up below 14 feet in depth. It seems that in former years there was a' well or cistern there, and the supports gave way, causing the cave-in. Action by Children's Aid Lindsay.--Provincial Officer Nelson on Monday arrested E. Sheedy, a wi- dower with three children, and Mrs, Alma Lewis with one child, both of Brunt River, on serious charges. Complaints had. reached the Child- ren's Aid Society of the environment in which the children lived, Police Magistrate Jordon sentenced both six Has Sword Used in 1812 months' definite and six months inde- Trent River. -- Josaph Doupe, | finite, the woman to go to Mercer resident of Trent River, has in his [ Reformatory. The children were possession an old relic--a sword placed in the custody of the Child- used by his father, the late Joseph4ren's Aid Society, Doupe, during the War of 1837 and 1838. The late Mr. Doupe was a mall carrier during this war and carried the sword for protection. MISSIONARY HAS Mr. Doupe emigrated _.rom Ire- | land and settled at Camden Town- ROMANTIC CAREER ship, near Kingston; he later mov- ed to Belmont Township, where Le died 39 years ago, Rev. J. W. Bready Back After Lengthy Stay Abroad Arena Plans Take Form Lindsay. -- Plans for erecting the new $23,000 rink in Liudsay are going rapidly ahead and it is expected that construction work will commence shortly. Four pro- minent Lindsay citizens have vol- unteered to go.out and raise the $5,000 necessary, Frank Carew supplying the rest. This $5,000 will be collected within the next week, it is hoped, through the sale of 200 tickets at $25. Those buy- ing tickets are entitled to a'terd any function held in the ink In the next two years. Montreal, May 6. -- A figure whose life has been almost as ro- mantic as that of a Horatio Alger hero, Rev. J. W. Bready, M.A., B.D., Ph.D., missionary, author and lee- turer, arrived in Montreal Sunday night. home to Canada after ten years spent in England in the ac- cumulation of knowledge and laa- rels. Dr. Bready is the author of two books, biographies ot Lord Shaftesbury and Dr. Thomas Bar- nardo. The first, which won him fiaveiack, wi appear be fore Mag- | hig Ph. D. from Londgn University, Sg -angley on Friday after-| has been a "best sdifler" in Eng- noon charged with cruelly and un- | jand. - necessarily ill-treating a horse. | - Officers who investizated the | struggle. Jorn on a farm in south- case yesterday, state that they | western Ontario, he was left father. found Wood driving a horse which less at the age of six, with seven had sore shoulders. The blood | hrothers and sisters. For years, from the sores was running down | his hours outside school were pent the horse's legs, they state, | doing *chores." As so many oth- os ers have done, he became a teacher Fails in Appeal | to earn money to carry himself fur- Cobourg.--~Roy Martin sentenced | ther on, and even engaged in con- by Magistrate W. H: Floyd at C.mp- | tracting, building summer cottages bellford to two years' imprisonment | in Muskoka. By his own efforts, on a charge of "unlawfully having in | he acquired a university education his possession six hens and one | graduating from both Queen's and rooster" the property of Miss Mary | Toronto universities. For seven Tohnson failed in his appeal to the | #eason he worked as a missionary Second Appellate Division of the On-| on Canadian frontiers. tario Supreme Court against his con- | Wins Scholarship viction and sentence. A scholarship in Union Theolo -------- gleal Seminary at Columbia Univer. Child's Prank Ends Fatally sity proved a turning point in his Ottawa. -- Seven-year-old Romeo | career. He was given the pastor- Lepage climbed aboard a bread wag- | ate of the exclusive Cornwall Com- on that stood outside his home on | munity Church in New York, and Water street here Monday, took the Farmer Charged With Crucity. Peterboro. -- Howard Wood, a farmer, at Oak Lake, north of Bready's life has been gne of there came into contact with the reins in his little hands and drove | Ultra-rich. Struck by the great in. | equalities of society, he determined Here's a Room that Pars its | to turn to study of the origin and | growth of such -conditions, and to | this end went to England, the | "great field of industrial revolu- { tion," arriving there more than ten years ago expecting to remain for four years only. His studies led him back to the very beginning of the industrial recolution in the early 18th century, As he became familiar with the sub- ject, he came into contact with the figure of Lord Shaftesbury, whom he considered the greatest social re. former of all time, and he finally wrote his biography. His interest in Dr. Barnardo followed, naturally, from the latter's early work in Lord Shaftesbury"s "Ragged Schools," and under urging, he wrote a new Barnardo biography also. . For several years, until the pub- lication of his first book, Dr. Bready supported himself by "free lance" journalism, 'while he travelled throughout the British Isles, visit- ing industries in every large city. Dr. Bready {s accompanied by his wife, whom he met under ro- mantic circumstances in the course of his studies in England, and their small daughter. He plans first to deliver a course of lectures on so- cial questions. Schools Praised For the work of the Barnardo schools, he had nothing but the highest praise. Out of the 110,000 homeless boys who have been taken in hand by the organization, 50,- 000 have come to Canada, he said. Out of their ranks have risen cabin- et ministers, followers of all the professions, and business leaders, yet 80 per cent have found their L&W upon a time it wasn't a room at all. It was just waste space beneath the roof. Then we learned how easy it was to make use of such places with TEN/TEST and we converted it into a recreation room. J But it was afterwards that the big surprise came. In build- ing the room with TEN/TEST we had put insulation be- tween the roof and the rest of . the house. Heat no longer escaped. The house at once "The Pioneer of All Insulating Boards" TEN/FEST Oshawa Lumber Co. 25 litson Road N, + Telephone 2821 INTERNATIONAL FIBRE BOARD LIMITED, OTTAWA, ONTARIO became more comfortable and way to the country's frontier re- gions. By his work in training these boys, Dr. Barnardo showed himself a true Empire builder, said Dr. Bready. the coal bill came down. Now, every year the saving in fuel represents a nice tidy rent from the room, and we have the room too. We killed two birds with one stone see we got another room and we reduced our fuel bill by prac- tically one-third -- all with TEN/TEST. : % 5 TN . @ AN Thursday's Paper Jury & Lovell King E. Simcoe S. Phone 28 Phone 68 COLUMBUS (Mrs. T. Cook, Correspondent) Columbus, May 5.--On Sund- morning next at 10 a.m, the Sun- day School of the United Church will observe Mother's Day. special program is being prepared, ono of the interesting features being a pageant. At 11 a.m, Sunday also a spec- fal service ill be held it being the occasion of the unveiling of the beautiful memorial window do- ated by the Maple Leaf Insur- ance Co., in memory of the late Hon. Wm. Smith. Right Honour- able Arthur Meighen, of Toronto, will be present to address the con- gregation. The young people of the Live Wire Class are puiting on their drama 'Nora Wake Up" Wednes- day evening at Solina and on Fri day evening, 15th, the young people of Solina will present their drama ,"Tea Toper Tavern" here at the church. Mr. and Mrs. H. Searle spent the: week-end with relatives at Epsom. Mr, Howard James and Mr. Lloyd Corgan, Detroit, visited the former's mother, Mrs, J. James over the week-end. Miss Mair spent Sunday with friends in Toronto. Mr. J. Dyer, Oshawa, visited at Mr. Wm. Dyer's on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. K. Clark, Oshawa, spent Sunday at Mr. H. Hayes. The Women's Association held their regular monthly meeting in the church parlor on Tuesday af- ternoon of last week. After the devotional exercises conducted by the president. the business of the day wag dealt with, '"Houeshold hints" was the topic amd Mrs. Hyslop and Mrs. Gordon Scott read papers full of useful hints and suggestions. There were sixteen members present. Mrs. Fred Heddon and family have returned home after spend- ing the past four months in To- ronto. Mr. and Mrs, E. Copeland, To- ronto, visited with Mrs. Doolittle on Sunday, Mr. Gilbert Weir, of Manitoba, spent Sunday with his uncle, Mr. S. Roberts. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Wilson, Osh- awa, spent Sunday with Mr. H. Wilson, MARTIN SERIOUSLY ILL Simcoe, May 6.--No change is reported today in the condition of Hon. John 8. Martin, who is ser- iously ill at his home at Port Dover. A bulletin this morning re- ported slight improvement. FIRE IN LUMBER YARD Parry Sound, May 6.--Fire which broke out yesterday in the yards of the Pakesley Lumber Company at Pakesley, destroyed a quarter million feet of lumber, valued at $45,000 to $50,000. The fire was brought under control early after a strenuous fight which lasted for several hours, Still Going On We wish to thank the people of Oshawa and vicinity for their patronage during the first three days of our 10th Birthday Sale. On Saturday we could not give the service you deserved. So we have decided to continue the event for the balance of the week. Bigger and Better Values Thursday, Friday Anniversary Sale and Saturday \ as WN A WN \ \ AN Small Deposit Will Hold Any Garment Till Wanted styles, Mens 2-Pant Suits Worsted, Pin Stripes, Fancy Grey Oxford Tweeds, Fancy Stripes. Models perfectly tailored. With extra trousers, Regular $24.80. . .............cceieienvni; ANE asseriosnatiiesiin vissivinurssassituen or $ 1 895 but all sizes. Reg. price to $ Birthday Price .........c.cooeenrnnnnn. 29.50. Men's and Young Men's Suits 1 PAIR OF TROUSERS Genuine English Worsted Suits in plain, fancy patterns, broken ranges, These are wonderful value. LETT TP PT PP PT PP PPPS TPT PPR 16° much more in the regular way. Extra Specials in Men's Tweeds ABOUT 25 IN THE GROUP Pure Wool, Fancy Tweeds, some with extra trousers. Birthday Sale A suit worth ALTERATIONS EXTRA $ 1 4% fancy patterns. 79¢ Men's Shirts Collar attached, white and All sizes, 14 to 17. Birthday Sale, $10°5 to 1 4% Values to $22.50 50 Men's Topcoats on Sale MEN'S BALBRIGGAN COMBINATIONS Penman make. Short sleeve, ankle Men's Shirts Fine broadcloth, 2 separate collars or collar attached. guaranjeed value. Birthday Sale, length, long sleeve ankle length and $1.00 New patterns, Reg. $1.35 colors. BOYS' SUITS short sleeve knee length. Reg. $1.25 BOYS' TOPCOATS Long and Shon Tromen, ff G5 The anand 96 SPECIALS IN MEN'S FURNISHINGS 35¢ Silk and Lisle Hose for ......29¢ 85c Silk SOX .......cccorvinnissniinnnn. 39€ 55¢ Ties for ......... s crsnsersernens nn 396 $1.95 Broadcloth Pyjamas ....$1.59 $1.45 Men's Caps for ................95¢ $1.95 blue and black Overalls $1.39 $3.95 All Wocl Sweater Coat $2.45 $1.00 Blue Work Shirts ere $3.95 to $6.00 Sweater Coats $2.95 $1.25 White Overalls ..............99¢c EXTRA SPECIAL! Shirts and Shorts Silk or cotton tops, broadcloth shorts. Elastic on hips. Special, 49 MEN'S SILK RAYON Combinations Good value at $1.50. Colors of white, peach, flesh. While they last, 89 JUST ARRIVED 79¢ a 39¢ MEN'S GOLF SETS. Special .....cwiisieiioniein. $2.95 Men's Golf Sets All plain colors, Pullovers and hose to $2.95 MEN'S GOLF KNICKERS match. All wool, Monarch make. $3.95 and $4.95 2 to 6 years. BOYS' FURNISHINGS Broadcloth Waists ....... 59¢ Broadcloth Shirts ........79c Balbriggan Combs. No Button . ...........39¢c Golf Hose, pair ..........29 Cotton Stockings, pair ....19¢c All Wool Golf Hose, pair . .39¢c Boys' Ties ..............39¢ Boys' fancy V Neck Sweaters .......... $1.29 $3.95 Boys' Long Trousers. ...$1.69 --SPECIAL-- BOYS' ENGLISH SHORT TROUSERS Yibide, 10s Phone 1870 Canning's 14 King St. W.. Shel SS A Ru pow --- ERR a RP a OR ce ak

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