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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY. MARCH 24, 1927. RECORD OF ECLIPSE TO BE SECURED THROUGH MEDIUM OF RADIO Charles L. Burton sntj'.y ejected president of the On-> Motor league. THE KING TO GIVE SIGNAL ON JULY 1ST His Majesty Will Press Button in London for Canada's Sixtieth Birthday. Ottawa.--His Majesty the King will open the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation next Dominion Day by touching a signal in Ixm-don immediately after which the carillon for the tower of Parliament Buildings will ring out and be broadcast to let all Canada know of the nation's sixtieth birthday. This was practically approved by the National Jubilee Committee, which met in the House of Commons, with His Excellency the Governor-General presiding. Formal organization was carried out and officers elected as follows: Patrons--Their Excellencies the r-General and Lady Willing- Ottawa Requested by American Astronomers to Broadcast Message to Arctic Asking Mounted Police to Make Observations. IN EARLY MORNING JUNE 15 AT BAKER LAKE. King of Spain Still Seriously Honorary Presidents -King and Hon. Hugh Guth Honorary Vice - Presidents Lieutenant-Governors of the -Rt. Premier pro- Presidents--Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Borden and Sir Lomer Gouin. Vice-Presidents--Rt. Hon. George P. Graham and Hon. Charles Marcil. Honorary Secretaries--G. C. Cowan and Jean Desy. Honorary Treasurer--Hon. Herbert - MarleT.---- The executive, upon which every Province of Canada is represented, is Hon. J. D. Stewart, P.E.I.; Hon. Walter Foster, N.B.; Hon. A. W. Black, N.S:; Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, Que.; Sir George Garneau, Que.; Sir George Perley, Que.; Thomas Ahearn, Ont; Mrs. J. A. Wilson, Ont; Thomas Moore, Ont.; J. W. Dafoe, Man.; M. J. Coldwell, Sask.; Hon. R. B. Ottawa. -- Harvard University anxious that observations be taken of the eclipse of the moon in the early morning of June 15 at Baker Lake in the Northwest Territories. This lake in the Far North lies lot) miles west of the post of the Royal Canadi: Mounted Police at Chesterfield Inl Hudson Bay. Director R. Meldru Stewart of the Dominion Observatory here has received from Harvard astronomers asking if ild bo possible to obtain these observations. It would be an arduous journey for e "Mounties," but officials here are clined to think they would make it the interests of science if word' could be sent to the post at Chesterfield Inlet. The only means would be by radio, and it is expected the university will obtain the co-operation of one of the large broadcasting stations to send the message, which would bej received both at the Inlet and at Fort Norman on the Mackenzie River,! where there is another post. The shadow of the earth will blot' out the moon with the possible exception of one edge, where the border shadow and that of the moon will approximately coincide. Whether any light will come through will depend on atmospheric conditions at the time existing along an arc of the earth's surface extending approximately from Chesterfield Inlet to Fort N( CING AND THE PRINCE NEXT IN LINE TOR THRONE -•lured on the right, is ill with influenza and pleurisy. To the left l, who wMl succeed o the throne of Spain in the event that the illn EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY RESCUES TWO GIRLS Climbing Over Blocks of Ice, Youngster Pulls Them from Grand River at Gait. Gait.--Stanley Bates, aged 8, of Wellington street, is to-day Gait's youngest hero. He rescued two girls, Beatrice Robinson and Peggy Elliott/ both about 8 years of age, from drowning in the swollen Grand River. Since the flood children have been; attracted to the river. The two girls were standing on the bank, when suddenly both fell into the water,1 probably because of an attack of diz- The two girls were in the grip of the current, which began to draw them from the bank, when young Bates climbed over blocks of ice. He pulled the Robinson, girl out of the water, and the little Elliott girl managed to get a grip on a piece of ice, but she became dizzy and was about to fall back into the water, when he reached her and brought her safely to shore. The water in the river is still high on account of the flood of Sunday night. Red Cross Outposts Do Signal Service to Settlers. Synopsis of Proceedings of Provincial Legislature PROGRESS DAY BY DAY MARCH 10TH--House in Commit-, paid as follows: Chairman McGrath Premier Ferguson stated on j i8,O00, C. A. McGuire 8,000, and Hon. this will be the edge of the shadow. 11 query of Hon. Harry Nixon (Prog., | j r Cooke $8,000 per year. MARCH 14TH- That in the past year in the thirty-^ seven Red Cross Outpost Hospitals, | scattered through Northern Ontario, I New Brunswick, Manitoba, Sas-' i katchewan and Alberta, and operat-debauchery; that]ing in 1926, 6,820 people were cared fronted with a bill; f0r by the Red Cross nurses; that promote! tnere were 1,010 operations, of which :d:234 were major operations; that 515 born in the outposts; for this reason that the has asked for observations ityj Brant) that he proposed filling office Baker 0f Minister of Education "until cer- tQ j tain objectives in educational policy f*a° ( --~~ ---------- were reached," thus saving Pfovinr ' Senator Hewitt j the $8,000 salary of such Ministe Supplementary estimates as follow were passed totalling $1,845,41E Minister's Dept., $562,500 ( the Assess other but rendezvous which will encourage drunkenness. Karl Homuth adjournment, but before adjournment' cnildre.. the Premier and Speaker both said that 178 childen were visited by the that in future all members will be outpost nurses, where 4,341 children held strictly to question under dis-j were examined; and that 3,300 homes cuss ion. I were visited to give nursing care or MARCH 16TH--Karl C. Homuth' to offer advice--are facts put forward (now Conservative, South Waterloo, in a statement recently issued from formerly Ind. Labor) criticized the Red Cross Headquarters in Toronto, stand of Liberal Leader as neither | One of the most interesting features of this report is that it is shown that 743 mothers, who must other- -The amendment (being «for'^ t Act advanced ■ asked for «beer by changed r~ ' Bennett, Alta., Bostock, B.C. Montreal.--Plans for marking th< Diamond Jubilee of Confederation ir manner were discussed at I eluding $5,000 for entertainment of "n- ; distinguished! visitors) ; Legislation, of; $1,000; Attorney-General's Dept., $7,-Je^355; Insurance Dept., $1,000; Educa- the executive meeting of the Pi cial Chapter, Imperial Daught( the Empire, held here. It was d to hold a historical pageant tracing j tion' Dept., " $188,267; ^Northern De-the development of Canada from early j velopment Dept. $1,500; Mines Dept. days up to the time of Confederation,; $19,552; Game and Fisheries Dept. the object being to bring home to -- school children the significance of Confederation in the history of theii country. Oldest British M.P. Dies. ----.-kingman. Mr. Sinclair heatedly uS not to apply on this year s assess-; replied, stating that advocating "beer ments. This amendment raises ex-; by glass » Homuth was outside tmr?10tL"f ^^olders from $2,000 .I the question. John G. Lethbridge to $3,000 and non-householders from; (Prog West Middlesex) upheld the $1,000 to $1 500. House only sat for | o.T.A. and referred to the fact Com-an hour, but passed five Government mission was a political body. Frank measures and eight private bills, W. wilson (Cons., Windsor) wanted chief in interest being the grantingj «beer by glass." Situation of assistance to Royal Winter Fair; j be serious in border cities if thi maintaining of deserted wives and not permitted. M. E. Scott (Lib., children; maintaining of children de-1 South Oxford) was against bill, but $62,060; Labor Dept., $169,000; Pro-1 S?*f ^f"^ loPt™feation of j would support it if carried. Edmond vincial Treasurer's Dept. 82,580; ! ch»ldrern b/ intermarnage j Proulx (Lib., Prescott) stated he Provincial Secretary's Dept., $600,-I 2* P"!ntf' ?""ta°ce to *wn of I would not support Raney amendment. 789; Agricultural Dept., $92,209, and -L in"e?sin& towns pro-i Leslie Woke jU.F.O., East Lambton) nadian Red Cross shows miscellaneous, $57,600. Ministers of m.nmg ta^es^.'" ■■■ ■» j HUjUlll'lU!ll llBlW, «mu tmr-Trniurtmrrtne year i»«rw» TUB 1 March 15TH--Debate on second' reading of Government Control McCrea and Martin explained thi department expenditures. The g&i-i T nishee exemption in new Wage Bill I Bl11 featured the Premier speaking to ; ... I nndon Sir Henrv Cr»iW Hi 1H i <*andB at $15 instead of $25. ! "» «^ion. Stated Act was intend- j Westminster Abey Choir London.--Sir Henry Craik, the old-: v ed "not to suppress but to control"! C-nJ FarAwJl Mf-aa(«. est member of the British House of] The Premier stated, re Liquor Bill, : liquor saie, by education "would not! rarewell Message Commons, died in London last week! price, etc., would be fixed by board, 'oniy eliminate abuses but change whole! - in his eighty-first year. He was elect- that workmen could buy 12 bottles of j public attitude toward the use of alco-1 Ottawa.--The Governor-General has ed for Glasgow and Aberdeen univer-; beer at a time; salaries of Commis-: holic beverages." "We have elimi-j received the following message from i 1918. i Conservative. TORONTO. Man. wheat--No. 1 North. $1.64; No. 2 North., $1.55; No. 3 North., $1.48. Man. oats, No. 2 CW, nominal; No. 3, not quoted; No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 2 feed, 58c; western grain quotations, Am. corn, track, Toronto--No. 2 yellow, kiln dried, 88c; No. 3 yellow, kiln dried, 84c. Millfeed--Del. Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $32.25; •horta, per ton, $34.25; middlings $40.25. Ont. oats, 55c, f.o.b. shipping points. Ont. good milling wheat--$1.22 to $1.24, f.o.b. shipping points, according to freights. Barley--Malting, 68;. . Buckwheat--75c, nominal. Rye--No. 2, S7c. Mar,. flour--First pat., $8, Toronto.; io, second pat., $7*80. Ont. flour--Toronto, 99 per cent. fatent. per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, 5.30: seab'-ard, in bulk, $5.40. Cheese--New, large, 20% to 21c; twins, 21 to 21%c; triplets, 21% to 22%c. Sti'tons, 23c. Old, large, 25c; twins, 2Cc; triplets, 27c. Old Stiltons, sities in 1906 and had represented the sion had not been set but would be nated tne feature of private gain in ' the Dean of Windsor Scottish universities in Parliament adequate. liquor transactions." "Penalties will j Abbey choir: MARCH 11TH--In Private Bills ! be severe." "People shall get liquor j Saint John, N.B., Committee the gas bill of the City i only so long as they behave them- March 15, 1927. of Toronto was defeated. This bill ; selves." Th3 wide powers were given ] Loyal and affectionate greetings asked for certain rights of audit of j Commission because bill aimed to ; from us all as we leave your hispitable the gas company's books outside the j prohibit the "abuse of liquor as a bev- j shores. It has been a joyous adven-present agreements between company ' erage." Beer will | be sold at cost, j ture, proving to us the warmth of the and city. Eleven bills were given Hon. W. E. Sinclair read a statement ties which bind us to our brothc-" second reading and six passed by the concurring' in the will of the people House. Hon. H. S. Heary read his at recent election and expressed the amendments to "Highway Improve-; hope that province would not be "too ment Bill" which among ojher things ' seriously injured by proposed bill." calls for removal of signs, gas pumps, i Hon. W. E. Raney pointed out how etc., that encroach on Provi ways. The information Markets Cured- meats--Long ciear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $22; 70 to 90 lbs., $20.50; 20% lbs. and up, $21.34; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $41.50; heavyweight rolls, $38.5} cer hb!, etc., that encroach on Provincial high- Lard--Pure tierces, 14 to 14%c; ways. The information was given tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c;! that President Falconer's salary (of prints, 16% to 17c; shortening tierces, Toronto University) was $10,000 per 13 to 13%c; tubs, 1-i to 14%c; pails,'year; Hydro Commissioners were 14% 1 16%c. blocks and tins, 16 Midday Nap for Mother. Manitoba Bill had "been a failure and j Mothers who have to superintend claimed that D. B. Hanna could not j the family midday meal and get the have a free hand, patronage would children off to school again would affect choice of subordinates, that ho-! benefit by resting half an hour in a tel guest-rooms and tents will become quiet room after the rush. port steers, $8.25 to $8.50; do, iair, $7.50 to $8; butcher' steers, choice, $7.50 to $7.75; do, fair to good, $6.90 to $7<25; butcher heifers, choice, $7 to $7.25; do, com., $4.50 to $5; butcher cows, good to choice, $5.50 to $6.25; do. com. to med., $4 to j $5.25; do, fair to good, $5.50 to $6; do, canners and cutters, $2.50 to " , butcher bulls, good to choice, $5 - $5.50; do, med., $4 to $4.50; .bolognas, $3.50 to $3.80; baby beef, $8 to $i0; feeders, choice, $5.75 to $6.25; i do, fair, $5 to $5.25; stockers, choice, , $5.25 to $5.75; do, fair to med., $4 to I $4.50; springers, $80 to $95; milch cows, $65 to $80; plain to med. cows, $40 to $60; calves, choice, $12 to $13; do, med., $10 to/$ll; j do. com., $7 to $8; lambs, choice, Butter-Finest creamery prints, 46 j *" *° >$14; bucks $9.50 to to 48c- No 1 creamery 46 o 47c • No I $10-2u > sheep, choice, $< to $8; do, 2, 43 to 44c. Dairy prints, 34 to 35c!! heavies, $4.50 to $5; do, culls, $3 to Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, i $3.50; hogs, thick smooth, fed and 89 to 40c; iresh F-xtvas, loose, 38 to'watered, $10.75 to $f 1; do, f.o.b. 89c; fresh firsts, 35 to SCc; fresh $10.25 to $10.50; do, country points seconds, Jfec. j $10 to $10.25; do, off cars, $11.15 to Poultry, dressed-- Chickens, 5 lbs.' $11.40; select premium, per hog, $2.10 •nd up, 40c; do, 4 to b lbs., 38c; do, 3 i to $2.15. to 4 lbs., 36c; de, 2% to 3% lbs., 35c;! ■-- do, 2 to 2% lbs., 85c; hens, over 5 lbs., MONTREAL. 84c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 32c; do, 3 to 4: Oats--CW No. 2, 76c; do, CW, No. roosters, 25c; turkeys, 46 3, 67c. Four. Man. spring wheat pats., to 47c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 35 to 88c. Beans--Can. hand-picked, $3.60 to 18.90 bushel; primes, $3.45 to $3.60. Maple prouuets--Syrup, per imp. gal., $2.25 to,$2.30; per 5 gal., $2.15 to $2.25 per gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25 to 26c. Honey--60-lb. tins, 13 to 13%c?*f0-lb. tins, 13Vi to 13%c; 5-lb. tins, 14 to 14%c; 2%-lb. tir.s, 16c. Comb honey--$4 to $5 per dozen. Smoked meats--Hams, med., 28 to 30c; cooked hams, 42 to 44c; smoked rolls, 25c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 35c; backs, boneless, 33 to 40c. firsts, $8; do, seconds, $7.50; strong bakers', $7.30; winter pats., choice, $5.90 to $6.00. Rolled oats, bfte 90 lbs.*- $3.50 to $3.60. Bran, $32.25. Shorts, $34.25. Middlings, $40.25. Hav, No. 2, per ton, car lots, $14.50. Cheese, finest wests, 16% to 17c. Butter, No. 1, pasteurized, 43% to 44c. Eggs, fresh extras, 40c; do, firsts, 38c. Cows and bulls, com.. $3.50 to $5; canners, $2.25 to $2.50; calves, $9 to $9.75; hogs, $11.75 vvith a $2 per hog premium on selects and 50c per cwt. cut on shops and heavies. have gone without expert c when their babies were born, were cared for in the outposts or by the nurses in homes, and that the death rate among both mothers and their infants was at a minimum. Since these figures were sent in, two more outposts have come into existence in outlying sections of Northern Ontario and the iled Cross is making every effort to expand this useful service in pioneering districts to meet the ever-increasing needs of remote settlers in all parts of the Dominion. An additional report from the Ca-that since ing have been organized in all provinces, at which 10,000 women and girls have taken instruction and that 2,300 are now taking Home Nursing in the 305 new classes organized in the year 1926. Fort Niagara "Castle" Used As Historical Museum Buffalo, N.Y.--A grim, two-century-old stone guardian at the only occupied United States army post on the Canadian border is due to bear, before the year is ended, the flags of three great nations which have fought bloody battles over it. The old "Castle" at Fort Niagara is on the way to becoming a museum filled with relics of Great Britain, France and the United States. The United States army is now engaged in preliminary restoration with $5,000 appropriated by Congress, and more has been asked in order to complete the work by fall. Promises of relics from both sides ol the border forecast a rich supply of historic antiques. Noted Fiddler Dies. Aberdeen, Scotland,--James Scott Skinner, last of the fiddler-composers of Scottish dances, died here on March 17th, aged 83 years. Skinner waa widely known as "the Strathspey king." He spent most of his life in Scotland. He played before Royalty 1 at Balmoral Castle, and published many compositions. ] Skinner visited the United States last March, when the "old fiddler" contests were thriving. He was a foe of jazz, which, he said, "gets on your nerves and spoils your appetite." He preferred to play old songs, using an ancient instrument which was said to be more than 150 years old. HOW AN 1825 STATUTE AFFECTED THE LABRADOR BOUNDARY In'the sketch map above the Labrador boundary, as decided by the Privy Council, is shown by the heavy black line. The portion from Alice Sablon, north to the 52nd parallel, is the one set out in the 1825 statute and was one of the most important factors in the determination of the term "coast." The Canadian contention that Labrador was a strip along the coast is Indicated by the dot and dash line. There is still some doubt as to the headwaters of the Romaine River and Quebec authorities are hopeful that by a review of this point the boundary may run due north to the height of laud above the Niaskaupi River, thus giving Quebec the Grand Falls. This would include the territory shown shaded on the map, and which cuts a gaaii Into Quebec. The hoped-for boundary ta shown by the broken Una, What Colds Cost Us. If everybody with at home at least 1 spread of the diseas reduced, because the Mild twenty-four hours oi Stay at home; sta the doctor. The^e