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Page Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921 During the year 1920 there Weill? births, 72 weddings; and 11 deaths registered in the town o Cobourg. The deaths include thos' at the counties home for the agec" and the Ontario Hospital. |NEWSTO?JGS_QF WEEK | ! Important Events Which Hav> Occurred During the Week The Busy World's Happenings Care-fully Compiled and Put Into Handy and Attractive Shape for the Readers of Our Paper -- A Solid Hour's Enjoyment. A few months ago men working ir Oshawa were obliged to go either to Bowmanville or Whitby to find sleeping accomodation, owing to the scarcity of houses. New offered all kinds of rental, and ten moved into houses before they were nearly completed. To-day there in the Oshawa papers for houses evidently reduced Oshawa's populat- Fenton & Smith NEW GOODS FOR SPRING i touch the occupation of as an independent life and r getter as witness what re paid for all farm produce, inly is the premier job tori -- Bowmanville Correspondent the Orono News. Township and County Forests The rapidity with which the scheme of the Ontario Government to reforest areas of non-agricultural land in well settled counties is being taken up, shows that the peo- ple ing up in regard to the I Tiger for a Tory-Labo: President-elect Harding has pleted his holiday in Florida. have discovered important lignite coal outcroppings near The Pas, Man. The Board of Education, Toronto, rejects teacher because of his Mor-faith. The Canadian fleet has passed through the Panama Canal on its way to Esquimault. St. John's, Nfld., is using a whippet tank to crush down snowbanks on its main stree University of Toronto put Hamilton disappearance of timber forests Along with the plan for the demonstration plantation of five acres in each township progress is now being made with the more ambitious scheme covering tracts of from five hundred' to one thousand acres under .the ownership of counties. The counties of York, Ontario, Simcoe, and Norfolk have already started on the plan, and other counties and even some urban municipalities are d.vs-iissing the acquiring of a municipal forest in this way. Planting Nut-bearing Trees A good deal of advice is going the rounds of Canadian newspapers about planting nut-bearing trees along roadsides in prefei not bear iples which dc 3. Many of these ne»svs :ome from the United i the conditions are the same as in Canada. The advice is good in principle but in detail it 1 to be received with caution. Th. fact that tree grows well in Indian! is not a reason for -planting it ii New Brunswick or Manitoba. Can ada has a fine native trees as an: country in the world. Her great trees are pines, spruces, firs, cedars, larches, maples, birches, elms, etc., and in these, no other country equals her. In different parts of Canada, walnuts, butternuts, chestnuts, beeches, and hickories thrive, also oaks, black cherries, basswood, etc. What those who are about to plant a few roadside or lawn trees should do is to find out what kind of trees are native to their district and make a selection from these. This is not to say that enterprising citizens should not experiment with desirable trees which are not native to their districts, because in this way advances are made; but it is to say that the practice which has too often prevailed' in the past' of spending considerable sums of money in planting, say, catalpa, pecans, and soft-sholled' walnuts in different advice of the i aing by beat- ing them 5 .„ , Large U, S. steel man says Tti ada's industrial outlook beats that of the United States. Field Marshal von Hindenburg says that France is anxious the Ruhr district. The second chamber of the Dutch States General has refused to allow interpellations on "Irish Republic The Federal Government will try to recover all the manufacturers' tax under the 1915 War Revenue Act. Arrangements are being made to have a Scottish soccer team tour Canada and United States next summer. Robert R. Valentine of Kingston, becoming insane over religion, horribly maltreated his wife, who may die. A , Hamilton Anglican church is joining with Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches in an evangelistic campaign. Two young bandits shot Benjamin Nunn at the Imperial Oil Co.'s gasoline station at Main and Catherine streets, Hamilton. Richard Knochel, a farmer of Grande Prairio, Alta., has been arrested, charged with murdering four men in June, 1918. Lieut. Vejsina, formerly instructor in the Royal Air Force in England and at Toronto, is reported killed at Ste. Anne de Chicoutimi, Que. FRIDAY. , Canon Lionel St. George Lindsay of Quebec died at the age of 91. Wilson has intimated that he will veto the Emergency Tariff Bill. Premier Smuts has 22 of a majority in the South African election Taft's brother scouts annexation talk at Bar Association, dinner in Toronto. Two Bala rinks qualified to play in the Beatty Cup final at the Parry Sound-Muskoka bonspiel. "Johnny" Wilson, middleweight boxing champion, knocked out Navy Rostan in the second round. Thomas Massales died at Parry Sound as a result of be^ng crushed nineteen'months ago at Nobel. St': Pairick's beat Hamilton, 6 to 4. nadiens defeated Ottawa, 3 to 1. Miss Gladys Robinson of Toronto, in the U. S. speed skating title. Two were killed and five injured chapter of week-end accidents. " arges there is great waste in Dominion Shipyards. Metal trades workers of Toronto plan for direct trade with Soviet Russia. Saskatchewan Church Union plans are being evolved by local co-operating committees. Aga Khan is on his way from India to attend the conference in London on Near Eastern questions. Fresh eggs sold at Woodstock Saturday at 40 cents a dozen, a diop of 25 cents from the previous Saturday's Bishop Fallon says the Privy Council's decision in the Trembley-Des-patie case does not affect people in Ontario. Several distinguished Frenchmen are expected to visit Canada next summer to inaugurate the French hibition train's tour. Joseph S. Johnson, of Gait, G. T. R. engineer, for 45 years without a single accident against him, died suddenly in his sleep. WinsTon Churchill says the new principle developing in Imperial relations is common consultation among the Empire's members regarding the difficulties of any one of them. TUESDAY. Sterling is quoted in New York at $3.89%. The U. S. House passed the Naval Appropriations Bill. Daniel Turdille, aged 81, was killed by a Walkerville street car. The Ontario Government members and Cabinet caucus Monday night. The first death in New York from typhus since 1892 occurred Monday. The timber inquiry adjourns abruptly when jurisdiction is question- The Belleville O. H. A. intermediates beat Port Hope on the round by 18 to 8. The University of Toronto is not in favor of entering a team in the O. R. F. U. The Southams are negotiating for e Toronto World. They may make it an evening paper. Premier Smuts of South Africa is expected to. attend the next meeting of the Assembly of the League of ^Tr^HROUGH good I times and bad times for JL the past 45 years this j Bankhassteadilygivenitsbest | efforts to the development and j upbuilding of the agricultural, I manufacturing and commercial business of this Country. Oureflicientserviceisavailable for the benefit of all customers. STANDARD BANK OF CANADA COLBORNE BRANCH C- A. BRYANS - - Manages We take this opportunity of thanking our many good customers for their liberal patronage during our big sale and wish to announce to you that we are pretty well unloaded of high priced goods, and we are in a position to buy new goods at the low prices now prevailing. There is certainly a big slump in all lines of goods end in the future we will be ready to meet your demands at prices that will be satisfactory to you. So trade at this store and be a satisfied customer. It is not necessary to quote you prices in this department as a trial order will convince you that we are the lowest in prices. ' HARDWARE We are re-stocking in all the latest in Hardware, Paints, Oils, etc., at the new low prices, which will prevail in the near future. DRY GOODS All lines in staple Dry Goods will be sold at reduced prices and we will soon be stocked with the new goods at the new low prices. BOOTS AND SHOES We are pretty well sold out of high priced boots. The balance that we have in stock will be sold at about half price in order to make room for the new spring stock, which will be at a much lower price than last year's goods. Come with us and we Yours for Business. ivill save you money. C. M. ALLEN & CO. s 49. Colb Terms Cash and Carry Hei wn: of i, chief engineer of Railway, predicts :ation of all Cana- l Califor sarily good an foresters ; ed killed Notice to All My Customers P. C. CORSETS 3 our special line. We do not handle other lines. Full range of sizes 18 to 35 From $1.65 to $3.50 While in Montreal I bought a large stock of goods at a great value. $20,000 Worth of up-to-date goods were bought at less than half price. In these were BOOTS, RUBBERS, CLOTHING, BLANKETS, = SILK and CREPE BLOUSES 1,000 lbs Good Black Tea We will sell in 101b lots only and will save you money lam planning to have a Sale of Sales, which will knock all other sales silly, as soon as I get back from my intended trip. This Sale of Sales swill begin not before the first week in March. By that time all the stock I bought will be in stock and priced. As our customers have insisted that we shall keep our doors open every day of the week I have arranged with Mr. H. Andrus to do so. And the prices have been fixed according with low markets. We fear no competition whatever in any lines we sell. J. J. SAYER