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Cas -- - THE NEWSPAPER SERVICE OF THE DRYDEN DISTRICT RVER COVERING THE TERRITORY BETWEEN FORT WILLIAM AND KENORA. Vol. X. --e shpat dCi DRYDEN, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 16th, 1932. No. 38. THOS. CUNNINGHAM PASSES ~ "Thomas Cunningham, Chief of Police of the Town of Dryden, died Tuesday morning in the local Red Cross Hospital, where he had been seriously ill for nearly a month. His death brought to an end a long period of suffering, for he had been waging a losing battle with a malignant diseagé for well over a year. if Born in Londonderry, Ireland, forty-five years ago, the late Thomas Cunningham spent his earlier days in Western Canada and was a member of the Winni- peg police force for several years. Before coming to Dryden three years ago, Mr. Cunningham was chief of police at Sioux Lookout and it was there that his wife died about five years ago. Since arriving in Dryden, Mr. Cunningham made a wide cirele _ of friends for he was of a most! pleasant and genial nature as! well as a most faithful and con- scientious servant of the Town. Besides one son Bob, who has] always made his home with his! dad, the late Mr. Cunningham] is survived by one brother, Rob-; ert of Winnipeg, who arrived here in time to see his broter before he passed away, and an- | other brother Sam in Ireland. - To these surviving relatives, the ldeepest sympathy of every- one inthe community is extended. - The funeral, in charge of Gol- den Star Lodge, AF. & ADM, was held from Dryden United Church, Rev. J. W. Howes con- ducting the service. The service was very largely attended and representatives of the Lodge, Town officials, the Police Department and the Pro- vineial Police from both Dryden and Kenora, were present. Six brother Masons acted as pall bearers and interment took place at Dryden cemetery. Mrs. M. J. Crosier has return- ed from a trip to Toronto. * * * The Junior Ladies Aid of the United Church will serve lunch at the Curling Rink on the days of the Agricultural Exhibition. Those from out of town will be able #to. secure hot coffee, tea and sandwiches' at moderate prices. Hey Kids! Don't forget the scribbler cel- oring contest ends September 30. As many entries ag you wish, good prizes too, so get busy now and bring your entries to The DrydenPharmacy Dryden Ontario oo P. 2 ADMISSION FREE Jitney Dance Saturday Evening, September 17th From 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. PULP MILL HALL "Come Early. FIRST DANCE FREE. Dances 10c Per Couple. BICKNELL BROS. Orcliestra L {| 88 ou cari ofr) INSURANCE 17 ox J, E, GIBSON, Agent 'THE COLUMNIST I feel this week that I must write upon 'a suject that' cdn- cerns me greatly, and that must have been of somé interest to the District, judging by between one and two hundred people, that impelled by sympathy or curiosity, crowded the upstairs of the Town Hall, last Saturday night. f I refer of course to the terrible tragedy of a life taken by a motor vehicle, and the conse- quent inquest, and the importa- tion of legal talent from Kenora. I have nothing to do with the verdict, because there is an un- written rule, that is wholesomely observed, and I believe could be legally enforced, that nothing should be said by any newspaper upon any subject that may still be a matter of the courts of justice. But I can say properly and truthfully, being present at the entire proceedings, that the jury was more than normally intelli- gent, and spared neither time nor pains in viewing the scene of 'the accident and getting at the facts. The scene or setting was main- ly dignified, there were perhaps, loose moments, and I thought more than once of Irvin Cobb's descriptions, but I think I may safely say that the traditions of British justice were upheld. Of course it was a mere Coroner's inquest, not a Magisterial trial, but I can recall only one similar case of such general public inter- est, over a time of several years. As I said, I must not discuss the merits of the verdict, except that it satisfied me. There was a poor little boy dead, there was a much respec- ted citizen, under arrest, and after many hours of evidence and argument, the child was proved killed, and the driver of the car exonerated from criminal negligence. is And as I watehed, I could not refrain from living the scene with myself as defendant. I drive a car, it weighs ten pounds less than two tons, and this moving load is at my dis- cretion and my whim. I can take it from five to ninety miles an hour. I can rum it on the road, I can jerk it in the diteh. I can snap it at a telephone pole, or I can poke it through a store window. 1 could crash it onto a sidewalk, and run over a per son I did not like. I can finally turn it into a passing train, and end my own life. ed For one dollar yearly the Gov- ernment gives me permission literally to do as I please with two tons of rubber, glass and metal. Of course under restrie- tions, but I can disobey these rules any moment of the day. As driver I control the Moloch. : Now upon the average I be- have very well. 1 exercise care, and yet I have very narrow 'es- capes. Last week I was on ? main highway behind an idling truck. I dropped from thirty te twenty, then to ten, and then be- cause the road was wide, I rais- ed to twenty and started to pass the truck. I cannot understand it yet, but the truck without the slightest warning turned right in my path. At twenty miles (an hour I was able to brake fast enough to get off with a radiat- or dent. At fifty, both machines would have been in the ditch. Fault to both of us. The truck driver should have shown his arm, I should have tooted. He thought no one was coming. I thought he knew I was trying to pass him. Suppositions, not facts. Th aL Of course you know the law of towns, twenty mile limit for streets, and ten for intersections. Do you observe it? The law of the highway forty miles an hour. Do you keep it? If not, why not? There may be innocent children anywhere. Painful lessons, those like last| Saturday. The great preacher, Phillips Brook, meeting a condemned man on his way to be hanged, said, 'There but by the grace of God, goes Phillips Brook."' As I saw a good friend of mine, a man Ihave always liked, facing a terrible charge, and, outside of that altogether, the agent of a tragic event, I kept thinking of myself, and saying this can happen to me. ~ stopped his car a hundied yards WALDHOF CHILD DIES AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT Coroners Jury Exonerates J.P. Schoonenberg of All Blame. A most unfortunate and tragic accident occurred at Waldhof on Friday afternoon, when little § year old Walter Muéller was! fatally injured as he lay by the] roadside drinking from: a spring. | When found by a neighbour! who was attracted by the cries! of another child, little Henry Monti, aged 6, who received only minor injuries, Walter's legs were both badly crushed and broken above the knee. The truck from the Waldhof store was immediately summoned and the little chap was rushed to! Dryden Red Cross Hospital by Pete Schoonenberg, jr., where he died a few hours later. Ag the scene of the accident! was at a culvert which 'Mr. P. J.! Schoonenberg had recently pass- ed over and smashed while driv- ing his truck, Mr. Schoonenbers was held for questioning at the inquest. : * * 3 Coroner Kinney of Kenora, in the absence of Coroner Dr. Mori- son, presided at the inquest, which was held Saturday after- noon to enquire into the death of the little Mueller child. Col. H. P. Cooke, K.C. of Kenora was also present to act as Crown Prosecutor. Ralph J. Pronger was foreman of the jury, the other members! being J. Winterbottom, H, Hill H. Wilde, Jos. C. Armstrong, Gene McMonagle, R. Foote and E. W. Wice. After hearing the evidence of several witnesses who were at the spot soon after the occurence, the jury journeyed to Waldhof to wisit the scene of the aceident and inspect closely the objects which were believed to have caused the child's injury, name- ly flying timbers from the brok- en culvert, : After returning from Waldhof the jury heard the evidence of Mr. Schoonenberg, who testified that he had heen absolutely un- aware of the fact that the ehild- ren had been injured when the culvert had: broken. He Had or so away from the culvert to replace some boards which had loosened on the truck bedy -as it jolted over the culvert and had not heard any eries from the children while he was so engag- ed, After considering all the evi- dence, the jury brought in a ver- dict that "Walter Mueller came to his death by aceident, canse by Mr. Schognenberg knocking three ties off the end of the cul- vert, one of these hitting the boy's legs, the child later dying from what we believe was shoek and loss of blood. We further absolve Mr. Scheonenberg of criminal negligence, but recom- mend that his drivérs license be cancelled and never be renewed." SOCIAL & LOCAL Miss Jessie Fleming left this week for Toronto where she will attend Normal school. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jack are visiting in Winnipeg, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Smith, Fort Rouge. Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Rivers and daughter, Dorothy of Win- nipeg, were the guests of Mrs. G. Ross Hamilton over the week- end. Mrs. T. Silver and Miss Cora Silver left Monday morning for Moosamin, Sask, being called there owing to the death of Mr. John Silver. Prov. Const. Thos. Wright and Mrs. Wright of Kenora were in town to attend the funeral of the late Thos. Cunningham. I did not bring you into my philosophy, you may now do that yourselves. : Without anything to do with the trial, but as an investigator of myself and yourselves, I ask, why this incessant hurry, why any illegal rates of speed? Why should we be in such a haste? Because paraphrasing the in- tent of Scripture, ¢ in such an hour as ye know not, something may happen to make you sorry "RATTLESNAKE BILL" GETS IN THE NEWS In the column " Grab Samples," by W. J. Gorman in the North- ern Miner, the following amus- ing story about the well-known character, Rattlesnake Bill of Gold Rock, appeared in a recent issue: Recent articles in your ecelumn re old time Ontario mining ae- tivities stengthen an idea of mine that you can do something for a languishing industry associated with mining in one of Ontario's oldest mining camps. I' recently visited a Northwes- tern Ontario camp -of which James A. Bow, Inspector, says in the 1898 report of the Ontario Bureau of Mines; 'The Manitou country received a 'black-eye' when during the wear the mines there closed down but the people in that section are not discour- aged."" Since that time of thirty-four years ago some min- ing has revived in the area from time 'to time but when there I heard of one of Mr. Bow's old- time miners of that section who is discouraged. I believe that "Grab Samples," The Northern Miner can help him. Your ready aid for all things connected with mining at least prompts my hope. The problem is this. The now Old-timer of the Manitou after the aforesaid "black-eye" had a = believed and believes in its min- ing future. He had made in the boom a small stake from the sale of a claim. With this he married a wife from Old Ontario and de- cided to stay in the District on been received by the distriet still}: A PROTEST I know of no other way of making a protest against what I consider an injustice, or at best a bad mistake, than to come to our newspaper and request them as fair-minded citizens to put this in print. May I ask? Why, in years that were prosperous and people had ne difficulty in making a living, we very seldom saw op heard of a Game Warden; but now that people are having a struggle to exist, some kind- hearted people saw the need of a warden, to make sure that the hard pressed and needy ones should be well watched that they may not get any meat they did not buy. ; I think it mighty hard laws that would punish a man because he shot meat to feed hig child- ren, that would otherwise in many cases be underfed. I quite agree that it is right! and proper to ecatch tha man that is shooting our game for the purpose of selling it. But I say again, give the homestead- er and the farmer a break. : I can't admire a law or the upholders of a law that would take food out of starving child- ren's mouths. Lastly I ask, who built this country? Was it the Pioneer? The Homesteader? The Farmer! If it was, then why not give them a chance to live on it. --A Protester. WEDDING DANCE The Worshipful Master and Brothers of L.O.L, No. 3121, Britton, wish to extend to all Brothers, Sisters and Friends a his claim 40 miles back from the railroad. His wife has only seen the railroad once sinee that time. He planned that since he was so far from the supply front he would farm and so raise their food and build up a surplus for sale to the to-be opened mines. With much astuteness be bought a tine cow and a sturdy bull. On beef on the hoof at the mine cookery door where, due to re- moteness, only salt pork and canned goods would ordinarily er. Rut alas human prev with which time has flown even in the midst of deferred hopes, for isi generations of cattle have been raised from the now departed clearing. his small clearing and limitless' at the re-opened mines and hap- bush pasture he proceeded to piness will raise cattle for sale when the amongst the mining boom would return. Fresh} be available was to mean fortune $8 to the miner turned farm-ranch-} jg the futility of{ fe ion and the gpeed!H the years have passed and many |g8 parents breught on a scow over, ji thirty years ago to the miner's [i The Old-timer though B skilled in the mysteries of pros-{[ pecting and selling a claim in §8 the boom, knew naught of eu- [i and animal husbandry. BS descended from the § genics The cattle long departed sire and dam have degenerated and from in-breed- ing they are now only runts. This year no calves were borne. Fond hope departs. Gold mining ig reviving the old-timers hears. Rumors reach him of the propos- ed re-opening of old mines. ; any time the local market for beef may be upon him. = There is not a good steak in one of his cattle. The hungry miners at the cook house door will ery in vain for red beef. One thing can save the lan- dustry of the Manitou Lakes. Can you or your mining readers secure for the Old-timer and his discontented cows a sturdy des- cendant of 'The Old Black Bull' of whom some of our ablest min- ing leaders have sung lustily in their most lucid moments? Is the herd-book of that noble animal amongst the records of the Northern Miner or any of its farming exchanges? We do know that "a long-time ago" he had six white sons borne in one sea- son. Surely there has been no deterioration or depreciation in that stock. 'No depression could stop the onward march of that sturdy breed. Northing less than a chip off that grand old black block will do. May I then have your aid in finding such an animal to reju- venate the faltering and dwind- ling cattel herd of the Old-timer you were in such a rush." Je was once on the Ontario At] gnigshing herd and the beef in-| hearty invitation to be present at a dance and supper in honor of our Brother, Mike Solomon, and his bride, on Tuesday even- ing, September 20th, 1932, at the Orange Hall, Britton. trail of '98. If this service can be rendered there will be veal '"next season' for the cookeries once more reign now discouraged ANNOUNCEMENTS Don't forget the Auction Sale, Saturday, September 17th, at Self's Building. 2 p.m. * * = St. Luke's W.A. will hold their annual chicken supper in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, September 27th, from 5.30 till 7 o'clock. Admission 50c. * *® * The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion, BE.S.L., will hold a sale of work and honie- cooking in the Pulp Mill Hall, on the afternoon of Saturday, October 15th. * * x An entertainment in aid of the United Church will be held in the Wabigoon Community Hall, Monday, September 19th, at 8 p.m. Programme will be largely by Dryden talent, including the plays "An Evening Dress," "'In- dispensable," '"Coon Town Band," ete. Admission 20c¢ and 5c. LE * Something novel and popular in dance programmes will be in- augurated in Dryden when the popular Bicknell Orchestra open the doors of the Pulp Mill Hall for a Jitney Dance, Saturday evening, September 17th, start- ing at 8. o'clock.; The Jitney Dance, so .called because the charge is 5 cents each:or 19 cents per couple a dance, hag become probably the most popu- lar form of dance admission. One only pays for the actual dances participated in while yet enjoying the music and life of the entire evening. Everyone is welcome and the first dance of the evening will be free. Tickets can be obtained at the wicket. W. I. NOTICE The regular monthly business meeting of the Women's Insti- tute will be held in the Town Hall on Friday, September 30th, 1932, under the auspices of the school committee. An interesting programme is being arranged and at this meeting we hope to welcome the * school teachers once more and to whom a hearty invitation is extended. All meni- bers and friends are welcome.' cows of the Upper Manitou.-- ¢"Aide-de-Camp." : Meeting commences at 3 pn. EDWARD G. A A super precduction--A th "FIVE STAR FINAL" ADDED--A Musieal Mystery and Cartoon Comedy. THEATRE ROBINSON in riller if there ever was one. Next Week--Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday JOE E. BROWN 'in This is one star you want laugh this is the picture that has lots of comedy - sand plenty of thrills. ADDED-- 'Sea Legs" ADDED-- 'Eyes that have 'It' *' "TOP SPEED" to see. If you want a goed Thursda 2 starts everybody talking. a weak heart, or if you can't stand shock. WARNING--This is not a picture for children, but what a Friday and Saturday "FRANKENSTEIN" Super thriller for all time. This is the picture that Don't come if you have thriller it is. i } NEW LOW PRICE | AETOPHEN TABLETS FOR COLDS, "HEADACHES, NEURALGIA, ETC. 1 Dozen Tablets 20c Larger sizes--40 tablets for 50¢, 100 for $1.00. J) 2 i Dryden Pharmacy Ltd. fh | | = i i