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Page Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 1921 do you know him? COCKSHUTT APPOINTED! EXPLOSIONS IN HALIrAX. Becomes New Lieut.-Governor ! of Ontario. Premier Meighen IALIFAX, N.S., lept. -Hall nday tha Proi l lira Even the Byng Boys will hardly recognize their former leader in the above. It is, however, Lord Byng's very latest picture, specially posed for the Canadian National Exhibition, a few days before he sailed for Canada, for reproduction on a medal commemorating the opening of the 1921 Fair, over which he will preside on Aug. 27. Divested of his military attire the new Governor-General looks a very different person to the stern soldier Canadians knew through hi* war photos. UMBRELLAS RE-COVERED AND REPAIRED BROWN'S UMBRELLA 3 i'ORE 10 Campfceli Stre«t, Belleville When in Cobourg Call at the ALBION HOTEL Good Meals and Service EDWARD LISTER, Prop. Brunswick House Colborne UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT ■ First-class Meals and Accomodation Give us a call when in Colborne J. 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PEEBLES ESTATE Colborne, Ontario iwPFrESS ADDS BAINS RESULTS. ford Man Will Be the Successor of the Late Lionel H. Clarke-Has Established Splendid Record In the Business World. TORONTO, Sept. 13.--Col. Henry Cockshutt, of Brantford, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario in succession to the late Lionel H. Clarke. Premier Meighi made the announcement at Ottawa on Saturday. The new governor will assume his duties within a few days, although it may be some time before he moves into Government House. Col. Cockshutt should prove a worthy successor to the late Mr. Clarke. A man of wide interests and of considerable fortune, he nevertheless is thoroughly democratic in thought and manner, and in his home city of Brantford where he was born and where he has spent practically all his life, he is liked and respected by all with whom he has come in contact. He is president and managing director of the Cockshutt Plow Co., the largest of the manufacturing companies with which he is associated, but he did not step into that position merely by virtue of family connection. When a lad of sixteen he went in as an office boy, and in the next ten years he worked in the various branches of the plant, becoming thoroughly familiar with the business from beginning to end, including the office administration. He took hold so quickly that in 1893, when only 25 years old, he was made managing director. He is also president of the Frost & Wood Co., of Smith's Falls; Adams Wagon Co., Brantford, and the Brantford Carriage Co., as well as being a director of the Bank of Montreal and the National Life Assurance Co. Col. Cockshutt has devoted much time to public business, having been Mayor of Brantford from 1899 to 1900, president of the Board of Trade in 1898 and president Canadian Manufacturers' Association ln 1906-7. The new Lieutenant-Governor was born In Brantford, July 8, 18 6 8, the lgest son of Ignatius Cockshutt and Elizabeth Foster, in the old estead on Tutela Heights, about three miles from the city, which he retains in his possession. Col Cockshutt has a sentimental interest in his boyhood home, and when in Brantford, he goes there frequently, wanders about, gives directions to manager and inspects his special herd of Jersey cattle, which he prizes highly. He has about 30 head of the Jersey cows in a wide district, famous for this particular breeds. He also owns other stock of high pedigree. Col. Cockshutt was president of the Brantford Recruiting League from IS 14, and in 1916 he was requested to assume the command of the second local unit. The battalion quickly acquired strength, and Mr. Cockshutt, who until then had been honorary colonel in the 25th Brant Dragoons, was given the rank of colonel in the active militia. However, when he heard that he would not be allowed to leave England with his men, because he was absolutely without military training, he would not cross over, and he resigned his command. He is now honorary colonel of the Brant Dragoons, reorganized since the war. In 1896 he married Isabella Rolls. Mrs. Cockshutt was born in Chatham, and attended the Chatham schools and the Jarvis Collegiate Institute, in Toronto, where she lived later. She went to Germany and studied music under the great masters, Zwintscher and Retueck, and graduated after three years in Leip-sic. She was senior music teacher in the Brantford Ladies' College, under the principalship of the late Dr. Cochrane, when she met her future husband, and they were married soon after. They have two daughters, Miss Margaret E. Cockshutt, who is at present in Europe, and Miss Kathleen Isabelle, who attends Glen Mawr School, in Toronto. Her recreations include gardening and music and she is a member of Brantford, Gait and Hamilton Golf Clubs. hortly after three o'clock Monday morning when a series of explosions at the Imperial Oil Co.'s plant at Imperoyal roused the population and. brought hundreds of scantily dressed men and women into the streets, fearing a repetition of the disaster of 1917. Those who thronged the citadel and other points of vantage overlooking the harbor, saw great sheets of flame rising from the rear of the oil company's works and the entire basin ablaze with light. Five pressure stills of a battery of twelve, completed last year at a cost of one million dollars, had detonated, and the oil which they had contained was spouting great masses of smoke and flame. High above the noises of the rudely aroused city was heard the roar of escaping steam with which the fire was being automatically fought. In the excitement that followed many people living along the waterfront on either side of the harbor moved their furniture into the streets and prepared to abandon their homes. Two hours later it was announced that the fire was under control and that all danger had passed. Six men at work in the immediate vicinity of the destroyed stills gave the alarm when what is known as the new battery No. 34 gave indications of trouble. This alarm was taken up by the oil tank steamer Victolite, engaged at the time in discharging four million gallons of crude oil at the company's wharf. Officers aboard the steamer tied down the whistle and casting off, steered for the stream. Immediately thereafter the Victolite's screaming whistle was drowned by the first of a series of explosions. Of the six men at work near the scene of the explosion at the time of its occurrence, all escaped. Gilbert Etttnger, employed as a fireman, was missing for a time, but later reported that he had taken refuge in the fields nearby after the alarm had been given. Two others, Edgehill Garrison, Houseman and J. Ritehey, still man, were slightly injured. The others were unhurt. SENATOR POWER DEAD. fas Sole Survivor of Alexander Mackenzie's Regime. HALIFAX, N.S., Sept. 13.--Sen-tor Lawrence Geoffrey Power, dean of the Canadian Senate, died at his home here Monday morning. He had seen 45 years' service in the Red Chamber and was the sole survivor of the period when Alexander Mackenzie headed the Government. Unlike a great number of his colleagues he served no apprenticeship to politics in the House of Commons, but was appointed directly to the Upper Chamber and was looked upon as a very youthful member. Though he had 36 years to his credit, it was the fashion to speak of him as the "boy Senator." Born close on 80 years ago at Halifax, he was educated at St. Mary's College there and in Ireland whence his parents came, at the Catholic University, and at the Harvard Law school (LL.D.). He was active in politics and municipal affairs, and was a member of the senate of the University of Halifax. In the Senate of Canada he rapidly acquired a leading position both as a debater and practical statesman and it was an almost inevitable step, 25 years after his entrance to the chamber, from the floor to the Speaker's chair, and he filled the office of president with dignity and general .acceptance for four years. Sets New High Record. TORONTO, Sept. 13.--Seldom, if ever, have the citizens of Toronto and the surrounding province fallen down on anything really big, which asked of them; so, when they ; asked to make the Exhibition of 1921 the record one in the whole history of the Fair, from the standpoint of attendance, they just went 'id and did it. That is why Satur-was the crowning day of a series dg days, for, by rolling up an attendance of 108,000, they broke the high record figures of Prince of Wales' year by 41,000, and established a new figure at which future years may aim. Saturday's 108,000 brought the year's total up to 1,242,-000, compared with 1,152,500 for the year previous, and 1,201,000 for the year made famous by the visit of the Prince of Wales; and in addition to setting a new record, it was a remarkably fine tribute to the steadfastness of the people of the pro- Fisherman Missing. MEAFORD, Sept. 13. -- Herbert Rumley, aged 44, a local fisherman, is feared to be drowned. His empty launch, with engine still running, two troling lines out, and several fish in the boat, was found about six o'clock Saturday evening about a mile and a half from the shore. As the Georgian Bay "is about 80 feet Jeep at this point it is not likely the body will be recovered. He was un-oiarried and the sole support of his mother. GREEKS ARE RETREATING. Offensive Against Turks In Asia Was Failure. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 13. -- The Greek offensive may be considered to have failed completely. The Greek army has begun to retreat under disadvantageous conditions, though it is not followed by the Turks, who are themselves exhausted. King Constantine is leaving the front for the headquarters behind Brussa on the pretext of ill-health which necessitates his complete seclusion, none being permitted to see him. News received direct from the front announces that the morale of the Greeks is much impaired. The soldiers are suffering from dysentery and fever and openly show their discontent. In several divisions wounded soldiers demand immediate demobilization because Angora their final objective, to which the commanding officers promised to com-duct them before the end of the week, has not yet been reached. Luckily for the Greeks, the Turkish situation is not more brilliant though the morale of the soldiers is good. Lack of munitions prevents the Turks from following up the Greeks. Only Kurd cavalry detachments are capable of harassing the rear guard. Hundreds Victims of Storm. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 13.-- More than 100 bodies of flood and storm victims in the lowlands along the San Gabriel river in Williamson and Milan counties have been recovered. Await Opinion of Counsel. LONDON, Sept. 13.--A meeting of the Grand Trunk stockholders' committee was held yesterday but no statement was given out. It is understood the committee is still waiting for the opinion of counsel. Local Option Defeated. QUEBEC, Sept. 13.---With but a few scattered polls to hear from, a majority of. 11,426 votes was given here yesterday for the repeal of the Scott Aot. ACTOR IS IN CUSTODY Famous Movie Star Faces a j Charge of Murder. Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle Placed j Ptider Arrest When Girl Died Following Wild Party In Rooms --.Many Scandals Among Movie Players Will Probably Come to Light Following Investigation. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.--Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, motion picture actor, was booked on a charge of murder late Saturday night, in connection with the death Friday of Miss Virginia Rappe, film actress, following a party in Arbuckle's suite at a hotel here last Monday. Arbuckle was locked up in the city prison for the night. Detective Duncan Matheson said the evidence showed that there was an attack made on the girl. "A formal complaint \fill be filed against Arbuckle," Matheson said. He added that Arbuckle refused to make a statement. The complaint against Arbuckle was made following examination of Dr. M. E. Rumwel, Miss Zey Reiss and Al. Zimacher, motion picture manager for Miss Rappe, and others. Under the California penal code no bail is allowable to a person charged with murder. If District Attorney Matthew Brady returns to the city in time the case is expected to be presented to the grand jury at once. An inquest will be held Thursday. Miss Rappe, who died Friday, was removed from Arbuckle's rooms in a hotel last Monday in a critical condition after the party, at which five men and four women were present. Surgeons said death was due to peritonitis, superinduced by an internal injury. Disclosures Expected. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.--The case of Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, held in San Francisco in connection with the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, film actress, will split the motion picture world wide asunder and lead to startling revelations of doings at Great Neck, LL.L, and Hollywood, California, it was predicted here. Already the most powerful interests in the industry, it is said, are lining up into opposing factions--one group convinced of the big .comedian's blamelessness, and determined to aid him'to clear his name, and the other equally determined to "see justice me." It was rumored in New York that the Arbuckle case would lead i other startling disclosures concen ing "parties" staged by people of the moving picture camps, both at Hollywood and in the ea3t. One authority high up in the theatrical world remarked: "The motion picture stars have been riding to a fall for a long time. The recent blackmail case, following upon the ^jjrl T"jl'r Manor party at Woburn, Mass., the suppressed story of a prominent magnate's affairs with a local stenographer were the be-ginnfiig. 'The whole picture industry is ire of what goes on at Great Neck and Hollywood. They have long expected that something tragic would happen. Stories of drug parties, liquor parties and other forms of debauchery by certain individuals at film centres throughout the country are no longer new. No one will be happier to have this sort of thing stopped than the motion picture magnates and the majority of the artists, who feel that news of these sessions has done much to weaken the public's former high esteem for the game and those connected with SNOW IN THE WEST. It Is Feared That Crops Will Be Badly Damaged. REGINA, Sept. 13. -- Drenching rains which have suspended harvesting and threshing operations in practically every district in Saskatchewan, and wintry weather and snow in several areas, are the conditions reported to exist throughout the province during Friday and Saturday, causing immense damage to standing and cut crops and millions of dollars in loss to the farmers. . A telephone message from Provincial Police Inspector Stewart at Swift Current to Police Commissioner Mahoney at Regina states that two feet of snow has fallen in a storm wherein the thermometer is showing full 12 degrees of frost. Mr. Stewart said the snow was drifting badly. This is the worst snowstorm for this time of year which has occurred in the district in 25 years. The provincial representative at the Swift Current Employment Bureau, A. Patey, wired the department on Saturday that the snow ploughs were out in the district; that the snow had been falling heavily since 9 p.m. Friday, and was still falling. The probable damage resulting from the present storm depends entirely on the weather of the next few days, according to F. H. Auld, Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Saskatchewan. Should cool and dry weather succeed the drenching rain the damage to the crops will be much mitigated, he declares. This kind of weather will permit the young grain to mature practically without danger of damage. On the other hand, Mr. Auld declares, if hot weather is forthcoming the wheat in shock will sprout and the damage resulting will be enormous. Outside of the terrific blizzards in the southwest portion of the province and the light snows in the north, the character of the storm has been that of a particularly heavy rain, uncommon at this season, and most unfortunate at a time when harvesting and threshing were proceeding so satisfactorily. SLEEP M Oh! what a wonderful word that is! Can you do it? That is, drop off into a good sound refreshing sleep? If you are unable to, there is something wrong with your nervous* system. It is a danger signal. Nervous prostration, melancholia, nervous dyspepsia are only a few of the serious maladies that are liable to develop. DR. MILES" NERVINE--$1.20 will soothe the irritated and overstrained nerves. Just one or two doses helps Nature to restore them to their normal functions. Guaranteed Safe and Sure. SOLD IN COLBORNE BY W. F. 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