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Page THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1921 Bowes Company Limited TORONTO Want Your Cream For which we will pay the highest price. We lead, others follow. That is why we get the business and our patrons are satisfied. We Pay Express. We Furnish Cans. Our Truck will call for cream and deliver empty cans promptly. BOWES COMPANY, Limited W. A. SEED, Manager, Phone 74 Colborne Box 209 MEETING OF CREAM SHIPPERS AT DUNDONALD All shippers of cream are requested to attend a meeting to be held at Dundonald Hall, on Friday evening, Feb. 18th, 1921, at 7:30 p.m. The Colborne Creamery wishes to interest all shippers of cream in the home factory, and is prepared to make up butter at a price per pound, and give the patrons the waste at the factory. We would like all shippers of cream to attend this meeting, which will be found to be for their own benefit. Colborne Creamery Co. ^L^GILSONllii^ " FARM EQUIPMENT | ITY AND SERVK ICE!AI Sixty years of leadership--of giving good value, heaping satisfaction and real service! That's why the Gilson name wins respect and confidence from coast to coast. That's why we are proud to sell this dependable farm equipment. THE GILSON ENGINE Grinders, Pump Jacks, Belting, Made in Cc GILSON MFG. CO., Limited Call and See N< •ite for Catalog. id Guarm GUELPH, ONT. WILBERT EDDY, COLBORNE, ONT. You Can Save Money on Coal There is as much diffeven wouM ceriamly LEHIGH VALLEY ANTHRACITE < The Coal That Satisfies 1 OH C.P.R. Telegraph - Dominion Express - Money Orders Agents for C. P. R. Railway and Steamship Tickets JAS. REDFEARN ©: SON Phoi --Of?ice-lr2. as received from Jas. Armstrong, ot Warkworth, stating that while employed on the county grader he fell off and injured his ankle. He had written county road superintendent ward an application to th men's compensation board, superintendent, on the advice of the counties solicitor, refused to sig To Finance committee. The department of highways in a report of the work done oi provincial highways for 1919, ounting to $213,889, of which counties' share was $61,738.58 The clerk said we would likely have an account in for 1920 by Ju: The county road commissioners presented their report. $150,120.69 had been expended* of which $57,177.47 was on provincial county roads, and $92,943.22 on county roads, of which the govornment pro-port Jm was $71,483.75. Couns. Slade and McColl moved that as the expenditures on county roads has assumed such heavy proportions that the government be asked to assume the entire expense of the provincial highway, and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to other county municipalities tc memorialize the goverdnment Car- Coun Phillips said he understood form a speech made at Wentwortn by Hon. -Mr Biggs that he intended to adopt this policy, and thought such legislation had been put into effect. He was surprised it had not been put though Coun. Smith from the Finance comittee wanted to get an idea from the council as to the sum of money they wanted put in the estimates for county roads County Road Superintendent Greer said he had four estimates prepared. The first one was $204,000 of which the county proportion was $99,400 and the government $104,600; the second $117,500 of which the county proportion was $183,400 and the pro-vince$94,100; the third $111,500 of which the county proportion was $58,900 and the province $52,600; the fourth of $150,000 of which both county and province paid $75,000. Coun. McColl asked if it was in-teded to pay as high for labor as a did last year. Mr. Greer said we did not pay as much last year as the proyince and towns and villages. Our rates were $6.50 for teams and $3.50 for men, while others paid $8 and $5. He said if we adopted the $204,000 estimate it was intended to do twenty miles of construction to finish the road from Campbellford to Carrying Place at a cost of $90,000, of which the counties share was $36,000, $20-000 as maintenance on provincial and county roads, $50,000 f struction of provincial and county roads, $5,000 tor bridges on each, system; $9,000 for machinery-and pairs; $3,000 as overhead expem and $22,000 for towns and villages. Coun. Baker said he was opposed to increasing last year's estimates. The trouble with Mr Biggs was that he had been banquetted so much by autoists that he has turned his head This government is too autocratic. Coun. Hartt wr.s not in favor ot increasing the estimates unless we were relieved of the 25 per cent, oi the cost of the provincial highway. Coun. Slade not in favor of go ing over last year's figure as the county rate must go up as we are behind in our finance-:. It t'.> rate goes'up, the township rV...i: ust suffer. The folowlng are the standing committees for 1921: Finance-- George A. Smith, chair-an;W. T. Wood, J. N. Stone, Thomas Baker, James Walsh, O. F. Allison, James H. Hess, Harold Baptie, F. Elliott, W. A. VanCamp, J.....McCracken-, -George Poole,- A. E. Eagleson, J. R. Hancock, Thos. S. Holgate.GeO. Van Volkenburg, J. T. Webb, Hurry B. Phillips, George P. Richard, M. Willan, Sam McColl. Frank Allin, William J. McMaster, i. F. Beatty. Contingencies--N. Hartt, chairman; lenry Bedal, E. C. Rehder, William i. Wynn,W. R. Courtice, Charles Davidson. James Walsh, W. J. Cor-»ett,H.' H. Holdaway, L. H. Staples, ohn 11. Bowman, S. A. Clarke. A '-tic uUuural--J. McCamus, chair-nan; Montfod Wilson, Thomas Ba-•er. Henry Pedal. J. McCubbin, W. Villan. Fred .1. Slade, Harold Bap-ie.Frauk Allin, I.. H. Staples. Wil- Farming Made Easy With A FORDSON TRACTOR A TWO-DAY FREE SHORT COURSE on the use of the Fordson Tractor and Power Farming •will be conducted by Representatives of the Ford Motor Company at The Trenton Garage Trenton, Ontario On the Afternoons of Thursday and Friday, February 1 7th and 1 8th, Commencing at 1:30 O'Clock Each Day There will be interesting Moving Pictures, including "Keeping the; Boy on the Farm" "A Whale Hunt" "Farming With a Tractor" "Canada's Inland Waterways" "Soil Moisture and the Germination ot a Kernel of Corn" The Course has been arranged to cover important information concerning the Motor, Transmission, and General Care of the Tractor and its work An Invitation is Extended to the Farmers of the District to Attend i McColl, Poole, N. Hartt, R. . VanCamp, Willian omas Baker, Ha-ry J. Corbett, Thomas expended in these counties c#unty roads that application the minister of public works requisite statutory grant amount. --Carried. run. Rehder wanted to know how men on the highway work covered by the workmen's compensation act, referring to the appli-ition for relief of Jas. A. Arm-Counties Solicitor Boggs said the t is in two parts. In one part are factories that are compelled to pay. In case of accidents notice must be given to the board, and the board decides on representation of the doc-tcr «n charge of th case, and the bomd assesses the county with the amount. Negligence or no negli-genre does not enter into the matter. The counties could come under the act if they chose to, but are not obliged to. Mr. Greer would '•sn the statement then as he d! i.now the regulations. Coun. Baker said in 1805 an a _ hent was entered into between Northumberland and Durham as to bridges. By an act Qi legislation there should be an adjustment and if one county has paid more than the other it should be recouped. Last June adjustment was made, and Durham got $9,000. A levy was made on Northumberland, but where did it go to. How was it raised and what became of it? The clerk said a statement of bri-;e expense is given each year at ie June session. This account ran from 1905 until last June, when an adjustment was made. The extra on Northumberland went into al expenses, and the account is FRIDAY MORNING Coun. Smith reported from the Fi-tnce committee. They recom-ended a grant of $50 to the sick n'ldren's hospital; $750 each to j Cobourg, Port Hope and Bowmanville hospitals; that the purchases be inslr buying with contra to the. gaol J John A. Bowir ntertained; that the t the balance of the . $200 a month : for a grant for the dge commissioners were appointed: Campbellford, C. Davidson; Hastings. Dr. Hess; Allen's H. Bedal; Wallace Point, M. Willan; Healy Falls, G. Van Volkenburg; Bensfort, M. Willan; Durham and Ontario. T. Baker; Montgomery.' N. Hartt; Ops and Manvers, W. A. VanCamp, Whitfield, J. A. McCamus; Squires. F. EJliott; Sedgwick. W. A. Wynn; Pigeon Creek, W. J. McMaster; Narrows, W. A. Wynn; Dunlop, H. Baptie; Marsh Creek, L. H. Staples; Thompson's, J. McCubbin; Wilson Island bridge, J. N. Stone. The latter bridge, while it was not a county bridge, not having been talc-en over, had been assisted by a grant from the counties. Warden Bowen, Couns. Holdaway and Hartt were ap. pointed the board of management for the house of refuge, and authority was given the warden and treasurer to borrow $150,000 to meet current expenses. On motion of Couns. Hess and Willan $30 was granted Hastings village to light Hastings bridge. On motion of Couns. McColl and Bedal $30 was granted Brighton township to brush roads on Pres-1'Ile bay. On motion of Couns. Eagleson and Webb 20 was granted to each Hamilton and Alnwick townships to brush roads on Rice Lake. Coun. Baker wanted to know why Darlington, which pays the most in. to the counties road system, got little out of it, and Seymour so much. Darlington has $4,570.77 on its roads this year and Seymour $32,323.96. Superintendents Greer said the counties system has 375 miles of road. The first year we went in-he went over the system with the government engineer when only §60.000 was set aside for work. He had to figure out where the money was to he spent, and in view of the small amount of money for so much road he decided to only spend on reads that absolutely needed repairs Some townships had good roads. Alnwick had good roads, only the a little narrow. Darlington roads, with the exception of six miles at tho Long Sault, which was very bad, were in good shape, about the best in the system. As a consequence we had less work to do in Darlington than in other townships, and it would be foolish to spend j money on good roads. We thought it best to try to fix up the bad and j impassable roads first, which has j been the policy of the goveri county commissi: far : Seym •ned STEAM VULCANIZING S I j *x 7 E OLD WINDSOR HOTEL, COLBORNE J Having purchased the vulcanizing plant of I Mr. A. B. Armstrong, we are prepared to j. <!o all kinds of ' I Repairing ar.d Retreading of Auto Tires and Tubes was decided to construct through that township and Percy and Brighton; that is the reason we spent so much money there. Cavan township also got more than bridge, costing $8,000, adjustment in 5 years. It should have been 10 at least. With 375 miles to look after it is impossible to do any construction work as the amount you have voted is not large enough. This year you intend to spend $120,000. of this the towns and Villages get $22,000, and overhead expenses an- *r>.000, which cuts the amount to $93,000. What can we do on 375 miles with that amount. We have to do a good class of maintenance to get the government grant.and it means we will have to stop construction. If the council had passed the first estimate we would have biriit 10 miles of road in Darlington and Cart-wright and 10 miles in Seymour. If he tourhed a road to-day the government .engineer forced him to bring it up to . standard;, , We have bad roads all over the counties,; but dare to tackle them, with only $93,000. In Darlington town-there has been trouble in getting labor, a:s both the township * 'ghway pay more than the rate . If we intend to do irk in Darlington this year we would have to bring labor in. He believed the only way" was to permanent gang in each township, or we will never get anywhere. Coun. Baker said he knew that the superintendent was up against it in getting labor. The township government pay a certain scale Greer's men want the same, trouble is the counties have a cast iron rule as to wages. In the north part of the counties you can ,t labor cheaper than at the front. Coun. McCrackin wanted to know if the counties could not turn back roads" to the township after having once assumed them. If tin's could be done Cramahe council would undertake to look after two side roads if the counties would keep up the Colborite-Castleton road. Superintendent Greer said the two side roads in Cramahe, that lead nowhere, should never have been taken into the counties system. There are other roads as well. With wages and conditions and the money at our di-posal the way they are we cannot give the roads the maintenance we should* Coun. Smith claimed towns and villages did not get wiiat was com. ing to them last year. First, ten percent, was deducted from what they actually spent instead of them getting what was put in the estimates. Then the .estimate was raised from $120,000 to $150,000, but our percentage was based on the first figure, should have been raised to the latter s thro' ted to know if j < :e of enough 11 lgtori in five: I McColl, from the County Y committee, recommended 3 town of Cobourg for the use counties oflices for a term of .rs, at $2,000 . a year. The porations are to have tbe joint