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Pace Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6th, 1927 CARDS OF THANKS To the Electors of Colborne Ladies and Gentlemen:-- I wish to convey to you my most hearry thanks for the magnificient support you gave me at the polls on Monday. My best efforts will be given to the interests of the village as your Reeve. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year. SAM. D. DUDLEY. To the Electors of Colborne Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to extend my sincere appreciation for the splendid support you gave me in my election as Councillor for 1927. Thanking you and sincerely wishing one and all happiness and prosperity in the New Year. WALTER J. COWIE. To the Electors of Colborne To the Municipal Electors: Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for the large vote given in my favor, placing me at the head of the poll, as a Councillor for Colborhe for 1927. I shall endeavor faithfully to perform the duties of the office. Wishing one and all a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Colborne, Jan. 4, 1927. IRA EDWARDS. To the Electors of Colborne Ladies and Gentlemen: For the confidence placed in me by electing me as one of your representatives on the Council for 1927, I wish to thank you. I will endeavor to merit that confidence in the discharge of the duties of the position. Wishing one and all the compliments of the season. JAMES M. SNETSINGER. To The Electors of Cramahe Township Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to thank you for your renewal of confidence by electing me to the position of Councillor for 1927, and assure you I shall endeavor to conduct the business of the Township in a fair and proper manner. Wishing one and all happiness and prosperity throughout the year. Yours sincerely, W. A. SAMONS. Colborne Bakery With J. F. Bruce as our baker, who is first-class, we are prepared to supply you with Al baking such as BREAD JELLY ROLLS ' CURRANT BREAD CAKES BUNS PUFF PASTE COOKIES PIES, ETC. Fresh Every Day EAT FLEISHMAN'S YEAST FOR HEALTH Ice Cream, Soft Drinks, Confectionery E. W. ROWSOME Phone 150 King Street Colborne Prices Reduced Men's and Boys' Overcoats Prices almost cut in two. We must sell our stock of Overcoats. We cannot afford to carry them over. COME IN AND GET A BARGAIN ! Prices $6.75 and $10.00 MEN'S SUITS -- YOUNG MEN'S SUITS Suits Made to Measure $20.00 CLEAN-UP PRICES ON Underwear, Socks, Rubbers, Mackinaw Coats and Heavy Pants THE FINEST RANGE OF MEN'S WEAR " If It's Good We Sell It" We give good values--We must--because we want to stay in business in the same stand. Low Expenses -- Low Prices Hats Trunks Suit Cases Club Bags F. W. Hawkins King Street Progressive Merchants Advertise CHRISTMAS REPORT, 1926 S. S. No. 13, CRAMAHE Class IV-- % Isobel Riendeau...... 68 Grace Wright........ 64 Donald Broomfield...... 58 Dorothy Vanslyke...... 50 Sr. Ill-- Fred McDonald .. ..... 60 Jr. Ill-- Bernice Chapman...... 64 Sr. II-- Thelma Chapman...... 50 Jr. II-- Lloyd Chapman........ 76 Ruth Vanslyke........ 70 Howard Vanslyke....... 68 Mary Broomfield...... 76 Vera Chapman........ 64 H. G. Dunnett, Teacher. CHRISTMAS REPORT, 1926 S. S. No. 9, SHARON Honours 75% Pass 60% Sr. IV-- % Clifford Godwin........71 Charlie Godwin......67 Stanley Pearson......52 Jr. IV-- Glenn Walker........70 Sr. Ill-- iMarald Gummer......78 Marjorie Herrington .. .. 74 Fosta Waite .. .. .. .. 70 Emma Stimers........67 Jr. Ill-- Ross Bramscomibe .... .. 67 Teddy Pearson........60 Sr. II-- Helen Waite........66 iEarl Branscombe......56 Irene Godwin........56 Jr. II-- Lionel Herrington......70 Vernon Walker........69 Book I-- Gerald Waite Sr. Primer-- Evelrn Gummer Melville Inglis Adrian Stimers Eldred Walker Evelyn Nobbs Jack Herrington Bertha Branscombe Glenn Walite Jr. Primer-- Eric Martin M. I. Murphy, Teacher. CHRISTMAS REPORT, 1926 S. S. No. 4, SALEM Sr. IV-- % 'Jack Armstrong......74 Arthur Peacock........70 Georgina Carter......63 Jr. rv-- Archie Bellamy......61 Mable Peacock ... .... 56 Grant Whaley .. .. .. 42 Donald Chapman . ■ ■. .. 34 Sr. Ill-- Dorothy Blyth........72 Gertrude Bellamy......66 William Brown........64 Jack Smith ........62-- jr. in-- Dorothy Cooper........54 Bruce Chatterson......47 Sr. II-- Willie Turpin (hon.)..... 79 Myrtle Jackson........69 Jean Blyth...........64 Cecil Bellamy . . .. .. .. 56 Annie McCullen .. .. absent Jr. II-- Carl Whaley........60 Sr. I-- Kenneth Bellamy (hon.) .. 75 Grace Spear..........70 Adeline Spear........66 George Blyth......60 Victor Blyth......V. .. 60 Primer-- Howard Bellamy (hon.) .. 75 Bobby Smith..........63 Llovd Chatterson......60 Audrey Rice .... .. absent Honours 75% Pass 60% G. Archie Frost, Teacher. LIVE POULTRY AND JUNK WANTED Highest prices paid for Live Poultry, Rags, Brass, Copper, Iron and Bags. Long distance telephone calls will be paid if purchase is made. B. GOODMAN Phone 153 Third St. Cobourg Raw Furs Wanted! HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID A. Margies - Cobourg Phone 124 We Pay for Out of Town Call*. BUSINESS CHANGE J. W. Heckbert wishes to announce that he has purchased the stock and goodwill of the business of GENTS' FURNISHINGS and BOOTS and SHOES carried on by H. W. Vandervoort The policy will be close prices, good goods, and fair treatment to all. I hope by this policy to merit a share of the public patronage, which is hereby solicited. Yours for Business, Phone 96, Colborne. J. W. HECKBERT j __J COAL GENUINE SCRANTON COAL We screen our coal. My scales are enclosed and always in perfect order. 20001bs. is a ton with us. Service is a pleasure. Special attention to farmers. Shed open Ira Edwards Cider Apples Wanted! Will load at C.N.R. Station, Colborne Every Friday & Saturday, October Highest cash price paid for all apples delivered. F. C. MORROW Agent for Massey-Hanis Farm Implements and Repairs Phone 40 East Colborne Apple Barrels Manufactured at MORROW & MORTON >»ODer Shop East Colborne ANTHRACITE Lehigh Valley Coal Name-- Stands for Quality This Coal is sold in all sizes. ORDER NOW WHILE PRICES ARE LOWEST Abo Pocolior-tas Soft Coals for Domestic Use J. Redfearn & Son C.P.R. Telegraph Office. Issuers of Canadian Pacific Railway and Steamship Tickets McCracken & McArthur Funeral Directors ROOMS IN OPERA HOUSE BLOCK COLBORNE, ONT. Day Night Calls Promptly Attended Telephone Connection i Motor Equipment Terms ^M^) derate imiun ilia iiilP^iBHmpaMi Monsters of a Million Years Ago Class V-- Ella Usher (honours) Beulah Acorn I^auretta Clarey Class IV-- Ruth Roberts (honours) Dorothy Holbrook *Garnet Acorn Fred Locke Clns i Ill- Gordon Locke (honours) Cameron Acorn (honours) ♦Allen Walls •Tom McKenzie Jack Clarey Class II-- Arietta Ament Dorothy Knight * Willie Clarey *Charlie Usher ♦Marion Smith •iMiaud Samons Class I-- Marjorie Holbrook Marjorie Lee Eileen Wills Orrock Smith Ada Taylor Mildred Usher Dean McKenzie Neil McKenzie Leslie Acorn Phyllis Holbrook Willie Holbrook Jean McKenzie Max Smith Agn Laura Usher Catharine Taylor I. Cornish, Teacher. Should Colborne bachelors be taxed? Mussolini says they should. In his own country, starting at 25 he grades them up to* 65, soaking them a little the older they get. At 65 he quits, figuring that they're hopeless. md Over- Mayor of Brandon, Man., was stated because he advertised election in municipally owned street ( View of "Bad Lands" of Alberta. (Inset) ""Phe majority of tourists who travel across the open A prairies on the Canadian Pacific line east of Calgary, are unaware as they look towards the north that there is to be found anything to interest them except the prairies and prairie towns. But not many miles distant from the railway, where the Red Deer River cuts through the prairie, lies a valley known as the "Bad Lands." This is a valley beside which the Rocky mountains are young--a valley whose bottom-lands record that once they were an inland sea along whose shores, millions and millions of years ago, lived those walking, creeping, crawling monsters known as dinosaurs. Only with the discovery of the dinosaur skeletons, and as a result of the numerous expeditions sent into the Bad Lands of the Red Deer by the Government and by museums both in Canada and in the United States, has the river valley taken on a wider interest. Each season adds not only to the number.of collecting parties but also to the number of tourists who are attracted by the picturesque character of the canyon and whose imagination is thrilled with the thought of the age-long secrets which the valley is beginning to make known. When and how did these donosaurs live? What was the world like during the time when they flourished? How would this very valley have appeared at that time and what other creatures were to be found there with them? Such questions naturally arise as the dinosaurs take on a larger measure of reality. At first one is likely to think of all these extinct animals as merely prehistoric, living hundreds of years, of course, before even Tut-ankh-amen, but perhaps at the same time as our cave-dwelling ancestors, with whom they may have contended for the mastery of the earth. The written records on which history is based extend back, comparatively speaking, only a few centuries; even the oldest, those of Egypt and Chaldaea, cover but sixty centuries. The still earlier periods when man lived in-savage and barbaric tribes take us back only on- hu: ' d ih,.-usa.id years, and r.s no fossil remains are fou ,:I in strata of that date it is evident that these huge reptiles had long been extinct even at that time. In bigness these dinosaurs have never been exceeded. The herbivorous group were the largest; they browsed on the rushy vegetation and among the ferns and bushes, or stood up and grasped trees with their fore-legs while they devoured the foliage. Many of these were giraffe-like waders whose long fore-limbs and immensely longer necks enabled them to take refuge in deeper waters, more out of reach of the fierce carnivores of the land. The Diplodocus, a herbivorous dinosaur whose skeleton is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, measures eighty-seven feet in length, and a still more colossal one found later and known as Gigantosaurus measures well over one hundred feet. The carnivorous or flesh-eating groups were not so large; they were more active, however, and preyed upon the herbivores. Though equipped with frightful weapons they were considerably inferior in intelligence to the modern crocodile or lizard and far below the bird or mammal. Of these, Tyrannosaurus seems almost "the last word in frightfulness." It reached the length of forty-seven feet, and in a standing position the animal was eighteen to twenty feet high as against twelve feet for the largest African elephant. The long deep powerful jaws were set with teeth from three to six inches long and an inch wide. To protect them from these flesh-eating dinosaurs, many of the herbivorous ones were completely encased in armor. Such as Aukylosaurus. Plates covered the skull, neck, back and hips, and even the belly was covered by a pliable mosaic of small close-set plates. It was further protected by a movable plate that could be dropped like a shutter over each eye. The Geological Survey at Ottawa now has a remarkably fine collection of dinosaurian remains mounted and on exhibition at the Victoria Museum, Ottawa, and are also to be seen at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. The field has by no means been exhausted. Under miles of prairie land the same strata are undoubtedly filled with similar fossils; erosion is rapid, and as the river continues to wear its banks away new fossils are exposed. For all time to come-the Hed Deer River will be a classic locality for collecting prehistoric treasures.