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Mail Contract EALED TENDERS, addressed to the Postmaster Gerural, will be re- vad a% Ottawa until Noon, 0 Friday, @28th August, 1914, for the conveyance 'of His Majesty's Mails, on a proposed "Contract for four years, twenty-four times per week each way, between Pickering Post Office and Grand Trunk Railway Station from the Postmaster eneral's pleasure. Printed notices containing further 'information as to Conditions of propos- contract may be secon and blank forms of Tender may be obtained at tho Post office of Pickering, and at the office of the Fost Office ITospector, To- Tonto, £ A. SUTHERLAND, Post Office Inspector. Office Inspector's Office Toronto, July 17th, 1914. 8! of the in the Gounty 'of Ontario in the Pro- wince of Ontario, Gen- tleman, deceased. URSUANT to Section 55 Chapter 26 of the Statutes of Ontario I George jotice is hereby given that all credi- tors and others having claims against the estate of the above named Robert Hodg- 'son, who died on or about the Ninth day 'oiJune, 1914; are required on or before the first day of September A D. 1914, to send by post prepaid, or deliver to Hubert 1. Ebbels of the Village of Port Perry in the County of Ontario, Solicitor dor Robert Edgar Hodgson and William rves, Executors of the Will of the de- seeased, their Christian and Surnames, addresses and descriptions, together with full particulars of their claims, a 'statement of their accounts, and the "mature of the security, if any, held by And Notice i is further given that after "sucht Jast mentioned date, the Executors 'of the estate will proceed to distribute the assets of said estate among the per- 'sons entitled thereto, having regard only tothe claims of which notice shall, at the time of distribution have been given ; nd the Lixecutors will not be liable for fhe assets or any part thereof to any or persons of whose claim they shall have had notice at'Port Perry the 2nd day of July D. He Z HUBERT L. EBBELS< SOLICITOR FOR EXECUTORS. AND AT MONEY, Several suns from ha ¢ Dt at ra: rate. LWAY SYSTEM FIREMEN'S EXCURSION NIAGARA FALLS From Lindsay to Toronto and Niagara Falls Unper Ausrices oF Port Perry Fire BRIGADE On Wednesday, Angst 0, 1914 TORONTO AND NIAGARA FALLS 785 GOOD FOR TWG DAYS &% Special Grand Trunk Train will leave the following stations : Niagara Falls 3.10 Toronto 1.95 1 3.65: ne 1.65 1,55 5.00a.m. Brooklin Whitby Town Whitby Jct: Pickering | Dunbarton Rosebank Port Union Arriving at Yonge St. Toronto, at 7.45. Children over five and under twelve years of age, Ball above fare. Returning train will leave Yonge | Street Wharf at gie6 p.m. Tickets good going on one train only ; valid to return August 6. Excursionists will 'take the Nia- gara Line Boat which leaves Yonge Street at g a.m, Arriving at Lew- iston, Excursionigts . will take the Gorge Electric Roufe on the Amer- ican side of the River. A cordial invitation is extended to all to participate in this THE EXCURSION OF THE SEA. SON! COMMITTEE: --~W. Cook, Chief; W. Powers, Capt. ; CHas, CoL- racutT, SEcy. j H. Bruton, ArT. OTERS' LIST - 1914 Wharf, VOTERS" Municipality of the Scugog + HUBERT L. EBBELS, 'Barrister, Port Perry. SE ---------- et North Ontario Observer. Merrily 'we Rowell along. Lagrier's promises should always be marked "fragile." The only time when Laurier will keep his proniises will be when no- body else will be willing to take them. How to keep cool when the mer- cury is around the hundred mark, join the Grit separatists, who are in the cold shades of opposition. "sir Wilfrid" Laurier's statement about the broken agreement re- specting the Senate increase does not lessen his reputation for accur- acy, the reason being that he hasn't any. The Oregon Agricultural College hen that broke the former world's egg-laying record a short time ago by laying two hundred and ninety- one eggs, has just finished her full year with three hundred and three eggs to her credit. Edmonton claims to be the larg, est silver fox market in the world. But as a market for gulls Calgary is unapproachable. To have a happy home, says the Washington Star, the husband should make the money first and the wife should make it last. The Rev. John Elder, formerly Tow Prices anything in that taken place east fone) dum Gifu ) he | ing feature of the: +h gent ih tacord breaking opening is being] stock in'thag lie is the - best obit able from the best and m manufacturers in the wai the 'discount théy dre myking certainly an extraordinaty| induces - ment to purchase, Ho Wants A Goop 177 Avwp Fagu.--1It will be seen by the ers that that fine Farm, the prop: of the Richard Blight Estate, 8 ated about half a-mile from the P. Ry Statiqn, Myrtle, will be sold by auction at the Birnie Hotel; Myrtle Station, at two olclock, on Saturday next, August Ist, Thidds a rare opportunity to seeure a good farm at Auction price. ~ Paiticullits may be obtaned of Mg; W. H: Harris, Barrister, or of the Ex or of the Estate, Mr. J. W. Mchatty. Mr. Geo. Jackson is Auctioneer. Tue Bast oF THE SfisoN. Perry Fire Brigade arejunning Excursion on Wednesday, Au, sth (Port Perry's Civic Holida ) from Lindsay to Toronto and N agra, and the tickets are good { two days. Our firemen k how torun an Excursion, in faet, they are experts at the Excur business and they have a record lways running thém 'succsss and giving their patrons an inl Baptist pastor at Barre, has joined sti Church. : All but four of 'the post offices' which once existed in the township of Manvers have been wiped off the the map by rural mail delivery. A Toronto man who took a seat beside a lady on a bench in a park and remarked to her "It's hot" has been fined $50 and costs or three months in gaol by Magistrate Cohen, Montreal Mail :--A man who walked 100 miles to Montreal to get work collapsed in the street. He was probably worn out by re- fusing offers of work from farmers as he came along. About 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning a heavy black cloud pas: sed over Beaverton. One single bolt of lightning was discharged from it, striking the barns of Mr. F. S. King, io the suburbs. In an instant the whole of his _ontbuild- ings were a 'mass of 'flames. M King's lpss will' 'be about $4,000 including twenty tons of hay and farm implements. There was $6,700 insurance on 'the buildings ana contents. ' ~The United States Board of Ap. ers has reversed a decision of stoms eficiale at Ogdens-, "which as 1, tongued goes up the down, Calgary: oil sharks are bi to spread themselves ovi Keep clear of then, Toronto Telegram ing up" their husbands, blame some women for of dogs, The "Globe" says the ment is "shivering on'thé t an election. The "G perfectly well that: been quite impossible si ginning of the dog days. lie nailed. These are the days farmer, jolting to marke! stones and ruts of ba preciates to the full als under Laurier di killing the Borden highways bill. The wiciking tugs Bill King are engaged to pull the Liberal rocks, Later. HR Sir George Foster recruit the trade comn vice from the ranks of, students. Why not ap kenzie King to all have 4 action. be given an Sabor set beautiful town /hitby Horse more. than the | | London, Wednesday, July 29 =" Austria's formal declaration of war against Servia cannot be said fo have disappointed expectations' although it. shattered some over- post sanguine hopes. Nothing has yet reached London as to actual operations. . Rumors of the occupation of Belgrade and the invasion of Servia via Mitrovitza are not confirmed, but official con- firmation has been received of the seizure of Servian ships on the Danube. As regards the general international situation, it may be said that it is necessarily extremely grave. 8 The St." Petersburg correspond- ent of the Morning Post says he is in a positian to state positively that the moment the Austrians cross the Servian frontier Russian mobiliza- tion orders will be published and Russia will take the field with ali the consequences [involved such 'I'he correspondent adds : "As a matter of fact, Russia took preliminary: steps' at . mobilization the moment fhe Countil of - Minis~ ters decided'on July 24 that Servia's tly Sovereign status must be protected assatorical = conference, this bas been superseded by direct] 4 uegotiations at Si. Petersburg be-|~ tween Russia avd Austria. 1 The negotiations, according to Russian despatches, are going on with such smoothness that well-in formed circles in' London last night hoped: that it might be possible to prevent. trouble overstepping its present limits. Prince 2 Albert Addresses on the missionary work - | of the church in China were * given last Sunday in Manchester: Bethel churches by Miss Mary Fot- ten Smith, of China, who is Visit=tf ing her friends 'at "the parsonage | here. The Service in the Prin charge of the "ser Albert in the eveni ha the If the. crop. - 0 tacked only in part, dig a immediately in front of wi 'worms are, In the case where the crop is partly attacked, 'it will found 'advisable to cut a through the grain, and rake this before the "trench is -dug. trench is often unsatisfactory, es« pecially in clay soil, if not properly made. * It should be at least 18 inches deep, in clay soil, with a straight clean side towards the crop. to be 'protected. Post-holes at! least a foot in depth must be sunk {1¥ every 15 feet in the bottom of the trench. . In sandy soil - the trench works excellently, but in clay soil it is often advisable as an extra pre- caution to heap up. the loose earth on the crop side right" along trench, ~The small particles 'of! earth loosen and cause the climbing' worms to drop. Hence in clay "of much soil it may be advisable scratch the face of the wall Tigh with a garden rake. t kes after rain. When the. worms are eapid transition fo su o. unable to climg the wall they wi 5, pass lengthwise through the } e younger generation wil xd done with spudes to insure a . clean p daep trench. must make no Wherever the worms are found; {tyros from prompt action is very important. fg . They are rea DzparTMENT oF ENTOMOLOGY, | -Ontdrio Agricaltural olege. |e ee Pays Tru To THE B MINISTRATION The Seaforth Expositor, Liberal, one of the leading weekly papers business sense who is needed on the of farm to-day, and Though he reward | of his labors may not come quickiy! © or in large 'doses, it will surely Gan dion, Farm. 5 PALE AND SIGKLY BOYS AND GIR tribution Bill; which settles the political map of the Do- | COME: minion of Canada for the next ten years, was one of the last measured passed by Parliament before it was was Sete 7k ie init ever: pression fost Qu 1 Wasa | time. with {ache and Le tr