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Port Perry Star, 21 Jun 1928, p. 1

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3 © jae a y Ht easantly 1 ot stain. Harmless to humans and pets. ARSENATE OF LEAD ARSENATE OF LIME = and PARIS GREEN es, a savitoes See the Aladdin Field Jug. Keeps contents hot or «= =. Contains one gallon © Vacuum Bottles, complete for 75c each. * «Ey cold, * x Morrison's Drug Store ate ; 8 | The honor of being i$ | to fly across the At 3 | into -a keep compe i$ | Miss Earhart and Miss Mabel Ed Sgt ee, clean, well everythi n o meats. utrilous and satis want it gd "Mac Farm and Garden Seeds Our stock of Farm and Garden Seeds is now complete. our seeds are Government tested, Our west show 'window contains samples of all the more important varieties. 'Have a look at them. and come in and see us. © 'We will use you right. i FERC ENE * Bee the big bargains in our east window. Look them 8 | or killed by motors. | child is in the streets unattended and i | meets with an accident, should not an i | enquiry be made concerning its home B1and parents? 3 | are culpably careless, no doubt, but i | so also are parents who allow children 8 | of tender age to go alone through the #| fiery furnace of modern city streets, i# | and come out unscratched. < | ham, Germany. | participate. As a fitting all ¥ for ATLANTIC Miss Amelia Farhar Boston's 'Lady Lindy companion, Wilmer Stults (10). jhe Brak wouitn between Boll, Le Many children nowadays are hurt When a small Many motorists are . rte MU ritens. freedom, A little supervision and direction: can h for the future of the child at this time. . A Cal e.passed |--years of laughter, love, and pain: We lived as e'er we lived, and shall again. They did not die that we might mourn, ay evening last some thirty members of the Imperial ters of the Empire assembled at Pine Grove Cem- ur to the soldiers from Port Perry who fell in the is a gracious act which these ladies perform year ed citizens is remembered with admiration and grati- ures are engraved upon our memories; their little 8, their promise of manhood, these are cherished ssion. They are so real to our minds that it is hard to believe that they will not come back. Only our own death can dim that memory, and that will not blot it out: for our children, and our children's children will honour the memory of those who fought for our freedom, and the sacrifice that was made by the goldiers of 1918 will point the way to herioc action for many a young man of to-day and to-morrow. Victory out of Defeat-- Miss Earhart's Fortune Southampton, June 18. Hopelessly lost---she missed Ireland altogeth: e monoplane Friendship brought Miss Amelia Ear- hart tq fame and fortune as the first women conqueror of the Atlantic. She had the narrowest margin of escape from death recorded in any successful flight, except that of Commander Byrd. But at 12.40 this afternoon (7.40 a.m. in New York) the Friendship landed at Burry Port, Wales, four miles from Llanelly. She had covered 2,000 miles in 20 hours 49 minutes, the first sea- plane to make the Atlantic crossing. At 12.830 Pilot Wilmer Stultz was flying northeast, with no the was and with his petrol almost gone. The woman desperate men, Stultz and Lou Gordon, the mechanic, uferything 'movablé out of the machine and threw it over- bo get a few more yards of distance. SPARKS CIRCUS TO BE IN « \(\ £ } OSHAWA ON JUNE 27th Wipe June 27th, aftethoo ening; under huge masses of canv §the finest circus ever made by 'the ing enuity and courage of men, will parade and show in Oshaws, to fe the young folk happy and the and f a old folk young. The great parade iff in the morning at 11 o'clock. Fist of all, a real wild animal eircus is' a 1928 acquisition, having been import- ed from the world's greatest wild animal training quarters at Stelling- Included in these displays will be found lions, tigers, pards, polar and grizzly bears-- gn trained ostriches will be seen in addition to the Sparks group of teen "Rotation" horses, the { elephant herds, fancy gaited and ing horses, the Bibb County Pig Gf cus, Sparks' Seals, and hosts of "4 'of a novel nature. The circus prof gn _ elaborately stag in which all the animals, performers, premier dancers, and a large chorus finish to the the mam- ] over and if there is anything you need. come right in "and save yourself dollars. wt "1 Our Grooery and Crockery stock is complete X ta A i £ AcCLINTOCK 'PERRY, ONT. | June 27th, at a good stat , that wefan moth pageant "Historical Canada" will be présented, in which 800 people and 500 horses appear. Sparks circus has been tripled in size this season and is today one of the largest in the] world. Excursions on all railroads. Don't forget the "date, Wednesday, Oshawa. A ~ spectacle, "L'Ora, the Jungle Queen" |" | where he proc though I was near Lands End," Stultz said afterward. He had twice circular the liner America east of Queenstown wo hours before, wasting precious juice while he tried vainly to drop two notes to the captain asking him to indicate the direction b Southampton by pointing the ship. But the news fell into the sea, the Friendship's wireless was g plane continued on the wrong course while ca~ineident was plashed all over the world Waiting friends Sea where was raining, the A left. "I hadn't any idea where I was," said Stultz. Miss Earhart, cheerful throughout, never giving up hope, working with the men to lighten the craft, was the first to see the Welsh coast. It was just in time. After circling Llonelly, nar- rowly missing the smokestack of a metal works, down came the Friendship in the Burry estuary,.a narrow land-locked body of | water off Burry Port, sheltered from the sea, and taxied gently g the water. . "Phere was enough gas left to taxi another hundred yards, said Stultz. 4 The great voyage from America had ended; their dreams were realized and the plane and its occupants safe on land once more. ~ The entire population of this little town soon had rushed to greet the fliers, and the district about here was soon in a ferment. Boatmen rowing out to the plane saw first Miss Earhart, bobbed hair, swathed in a colored bandeau, and face wreathed in a tired, happy smile. They stretched their hands up from their skiffs to the cabin of the pl and grasped her hand, congratulating her with almost their first words. - : She thanked them simply, one of them said upon returning, added: "I'm the proudest woman in the world." After relating the difficulties of the start and how the floats of the plane had been strained by the battering of the waves, Miss Earhart is quoted as saying: ; "Once we were up, everything was all right. I spent most of the time in the rear cabin. It was cold there, and when I got too cold T would go forward into the control cabin. and sit beside Mr. Stultz, He navigated and flew the plane most of the way across, with just a little relief from Gordon. I was too excited to do much more than think of crossing." Stultz and Gordon were then seer aud alter soe epuverss with the boatmen, Stultz put out with one of them 5 to ured fresh fuel supplies. Gordon and Miss Earhart sleep, and, after a while, they too were rowed wanted only to | from their plane to Burry Port. "1 Later, she, Stultz and Gordon, motored to a hotel, where they and retired. At the hotel, the police had to went to their root3 and as' Earhart from her take p t harm to Mi Ee on A a was the darling of them all. broke out from unknown cause in the skat- his morning. The aggregate loss by the blaze is | to the to them and to many others the splendid spirit of |: out about 1.95 in the old skating rink, 8 large : action, this is the old pustion. Close beside he pt. HE whereabouts df your valuables is nobody's business but your own, and for that very reason they should be placed beyond the reach of meddling persons, thieves or elements which compromise their security. Use a safety deposit box in your nearest branch of the Standard Bank. It is the most convenient method of safe keeping for documents, jewels and other small objects of value, H. G. HUTCHESON Manager, Port Branch in, Nestleton P. Branches also at Blackstock, Little houses adjoining were one huge mass of flimes. Occupants of the houses fled in panic, snatching up what garments they could ° hastily, and some in their night attire. With fourteen houses, the skating rink and the warehouse all ghlaze, the reflection of the fire could be seen for miles about the city. : The roaring flames reached acrqss the street and ignited structures on the opposite side. Citizens helped the harassed firemen with buckets of awter or anything that could be utilized in the work of quenching the flames. Father and Three Children are Killed at Radial Railway Crossing A father, two sons and his young daughter were instantly killed at 7.56 o'clock last evening by a C.N.R. Guelph electric radial freight train at theLambton Mills level crossing about three miles west of the City limits on Dundas Street. There were no others in the car. In the little home on conces- sion "A" Etobicoke Township, about a mile and a half north of Dundas street, there survives of a family of six, only the mother and one son, Stanley, aged 165. It was by no more than a chance of fate that Stanley Littley and Albert Armitage, aged 16, a lad who helps Stanley till the 28 acres of land on which the family lives, were not included in death's toll. After supper, Leslie, who owned the car and who was driving at the time of the accident, borrowed ten dollars from Mrs. Littley to buy two tires. The rest of the family and Albert Armitage, all except the mother--were going to go with him to the tire shop in Lambton Mills where the tires were to be bought. But as the party drove down the concession line to Dundas street, Stanley and Albert decided not to go. They could give no reason for their sudden change of mind, but they got out and walked back home, cheating death. The crossing at which the tragedy occumred is that at which the radial line crosses the road just a few yards east of the C.P.R. steam railway crossing. It is believed that the tires had been purchased for the car is said to have been proceeding west. The radial, which was a way freight, comprising an electric driving car and six freight cars, was coming to Toronto from Guelph. At this point, inbound radials cross the road in a northerly direction. The Littley car, an old Po) touring, had just passed that of Mr. and Mrs. George Hutchinson, of Cheltonham, and thence on to the tracks. According to C.N.R. officials, En- gineer Brooks had been sounding the usual warnings in approach- ing the road, and when he saw the touring car driving toward the tracks, applied the brakes. But it was too late. With a re- sounding crash, the massive radial smashed into the touring car, with the result that Walter Littley, aged 42, father ;Leslie Littley, aged 19, Edward Littley, aged 13, Ivy Littley aged 12, were killed. When Shall We Have Protected . Railway Crossings? How long will it be before the general public effectively demand that every level railway cross- ing be properly protected? How many persons must be maimed or killed before public safety is adequately considered? If a start toward installation of safety de- vices is not soon made, the problem will become very acute. It should be imperative that in the specifica- tions for every new level railway crossing provis- ion should be made for public safety. Railways and municipal authorities should be expected to protect level crossings already in existence. Bells, wig-wags, gates and guards should be es- sential railway equipment at every level crossing. Such a program would probably take years, but it should be begun, and the people should not have to face the endless agitation and red tape usually necessary to secure protection at railway crossings. :

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