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__ --- vuvvw WI ‘VCLC IU‘ Sis genei .1111 if not wholly conced- the By- law and 179 against it This that the liquoi men are the law gave the temperance people six y per kers under license and 1n places cent. of the whole vote polled and lire 10031 option 01‘ any other re- eleven votes additional 01 looking etetfie measuxe has been in opera-3 at it from another point, Local Option 4 ,. the same class who brought would still carry if it had received 28 {it the ViOlaDiODS are again the fewer votes than it did receive. The ers. Of course the law will be 179 votes by the anti-optionists would ‘ted under 10031 option and “0"“?! be offset by 269 votes from the temper- l ? y exactly the same 6188119193 33 ance party or 28 votes fewer than they i; te our present law These men actually polled in its favor. The 0p- l not law-abiding citizens under . se, and it isnot tobe expected .1 a restrictive measure. confident that it would not carry, and the result was even a greater surprise ' , to them than it was to the temperance 1 matter how good a license system people. --;_ . y have if badly administeredl The election for trustee between Mr. 1:77: sure to be looked on as a Oatton and Mr. Telford was not one *‘.by a majority of the people of the main issues of the day. Both g. ‘ as evidenced in the Provin- were considered good men, and the .1. 1 of 1894, the Dominion electors being allowed to vote as they 1% and latterly the Ross liked did so, apparently feelmg satis- » "pm Ontario, when large fled that either one would fill the I .. .“6 they will be law-abiding citizens f/lacFarlane Co. Yith Best Wishes )"301' Christmas (I New Year ‘ FROM , Draggists and Booksellers JRHAM CHRONICLE, it!” IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. 'Wvâ€"vvrvrv-‘â€""â€"v‘a" :PURHAM. JANUARY 9, 1908. TANCT UM SIFTINGS 3‘ illegally under local option and {lgking to excess in some cases under fisame law will not be denied by if reasonable person. Intoxicants now sold illegally under what is fined to be the best license system r{Ecountry ever had. Drinking to ‘.-ss is done also under our good «use system. \Vho is responsible iviolations of the law under the [1: 5e system which givesa monopoly 5e trade to three men in this town. .y'very men who hold the monopoly gale. trade and men who could, if they Md. live strictly up to the law are +phief offenders. It may be repeat- ,hs it was repeated often before in “columns of this paper that the . or men themselves are to blame in i-ge degree for the temperance agi- tn of to-day. They have long been ed of the approaching danger to ‘ business, but they refused to give :Eto the warnings. 1 "drawn and struck as false the Eers with leasonable and thought~ Eninds. N0 sane person can uphold (king and drunkenness whether it fit the bar or from a. bottle behind Sbarn. That intoxicants will be were may be arguments in favor of 6' License System and arguments “Inst Local Option, but the recent *paign did not seem to develop any fit strength along the former line. Qy of the Big Head-Lines were unmered Brass the latest craze. .tionery, Christmas Cards, nd Christmas Post Cards. Something here to suit Everybody. i: visit to our store will are all your presents 3g useful as well as .amental. e absolutely useless , and in consequence a filled our. shelves with by articles which will rer some useful pur- ’ases a know too well thé .tisfaction in receiving Leather Goods 21 New Patterns. SBMS Glassware THE Card Cases Music Holdels last. The measure should get afair trial and if it fail after a fair trial, it should certainly be repealed at the end of th ree years. It isn’t fair, however, for even a respectable minority to conclude now that the measure is a. failure and start in from the first to make it as bad as possible. It is the will of the majority as shown by the votes. and before any conclusion should be come to. the law abiding citizens should give it afair chance. Its success or failure will be measured by the willingness of our citizens to show themselves good loyal subjects by exercising obedience to a. majority rule. ' From the first there seemed a feeling that Mr. Calder would be returned to the mayoralty, but opinions were divided so as to give no certainty re- garding the election of areeve. Some thought Saunders would be the winner while others felt that Laidlaw would be the people’s choice. \Vith ten council candidates, there was no telling who would get there, and the an- nouncement was a sort of a surprise when it was learned Mr. McGowan, who headed the poll, was the only member of the Council of 1907 to go back for 1908. Mr. Catton, Manager of the Furni- ture Company, measured his strength with Mr. Telford and suffered defeat at the hands of the electors. However, he takes his medicine well inasmuch as he claims to have been opposed by a first class man. Local Option is not a. measure that stands for all time, any more than any other law on the statute books of the country. The majority of the electors of this town hare shown by their votes that they think it an improvement on the present license system. An effort on the part of its opponents to dis- credit tbe measure will be most fruit- ful in bringing about dissensions in the community and equally fruitless in leading the public to look with favor on the liquor business. There are only three men in this town Whose business seems to be materially injur- (Ed by the local option vote of Monday Quite an interest was taken in the elections here and in the surrounding townships on Monday 11st. The elec- tor here should feel the importance of his franchise when six ballots were handed him by the Deputy Returning Officer at the different polling booths. Calder and Hunter were running for the mayoralty. Saunders and Laidlaw for the reeveship, and there were ten candidates seeking honors as council- lors for 1908. Besides the filling of the regular municipal positions and the election of a trustee for the \Vest Ward, there were two By-laws to be voted on, one to authorize the Council to raise money for the building of a new bridge at the foot of Garafraxa. street hill and another for the adoption of Local Option. Much capital is made of the hard feelings that grow out of a local option campaign. There should be no neces- sity for one side to entertain bar-4. feelings against the other, and there wouldn’t be a great amount of discord if all were law-abiding citizens and willing to submit quietly to majority rule. The old bridge at the foot of the hill needs to be replaced, and everybody felt sure that the By-law would carry with little or no opposition. The vote stood 2.33 for and 48 against the by-law, majorities were rolled up on each occasion agamst the liquor tramc. The sixty per cent. clause required in the Local Option Law is nona fair deal to the temperance people, but in re- gard to that it may be argued that in municipalities where the Local Uption By-law goes into effect it will show the strength of the temperance senti- ment, and when time comes for a re- peal it will require the same percentage vote as it did to put it into operation, On this account there must be a big turn over of public sentiment torepeal a by-law once passed, and greater stability is given to the measure. a much larger opposition than the majority of the electors expected to find. They expected a few, of course, but 48 was more than they counted on. The big race was for Local Option,‘ and the victory gained by the Local Option party was a surprise to many of them who have had doubts for the past fortnight or so. The total vote polled was 476. Of these 297 were for the By-law and 179 against it. This gave the temperance people sixty per cent. of the whole vote polled and eleven votes additional. 0r looking at it from another point, Local Option would still carry if it had received 28 fewer votes than it did receive. The 179 votes by the anti-optionists would be ofl'set by % votes from the temper- ance party or 28 votes fewer than they actually polled in its favor. The op- ponents of the measure felt quite confident that it would not carry, and the result was even a greater surprise ' to them than it was to the temperance , people. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. mm. Mt. Forest fell 15 votes below a bare majority on the Local Option By-law. The Local Option vote in Palmeis- ton fell 10 short of a st: aizht. majority. Harriston gave 45 of a majority against Local Option. Owen Sound elected Mayor Kennedy by 176 majority. OUTSIDE RESULTS. Collingwood carried a. By-law to place liquor license fees at $2500 per annuun In Parry Sound the Local Option By-law was badly defeated. Paisley fell eight votes short on the Local (tption By-law. Gravenhurst gave 101 against Local Option. Barrie fell 66 notes short of the number required to carry the By-law. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:â€" Reeve Saunders 47 66 146 Councillors Brown Cochrane Kinnee Kress Lenaban McGowan McLachlan I hereby wish to convey to you my grateful thanks for your courteous treatment at the late election and particularly those who so cheerfully and unselfishly united to vindicate un- lawful infringment of our heritage and rights as citizens of this fair Do minion. And, although we have not succeeded in all we purposed, yet we have the satisfaction of doing our duty without fear or favor to anyone. Laidlaw 42 105 Robertson and By-lawszâ€" Mayor Calder Hunter Sharp 44 83 129 256 \Vhelan 31 31 99 164 Councillors electedâ€"J. H. Brown. D. Kinnee, Edward Kress, John Mc- Gowan, Adam Robertson, Benjamin Sharp. Bridge For 49 74 110 233 Against 7 16 25 48 Against 7 16 25 .Majority for Bylawâ€"195. Local Option For 50 93 154 Against 36 49 94 Mayorâ€"John Taylor. Reeveâ€"R. J. Bull. Councillorsâ€"H. Speiz. Fred Heim- beckex', V. Kirchner, H. Stadlander, Henry \Veppler. Ed. Knechtel. EGREMONT. Reeveâ€"W. Hastie (accl.) Deputyâ€"“Hater Ferguson. Councillorsâ€"Geo. Lothian (headed the poll), John Philip, Duncan Hunter. NORMANBY. Reeveâ€"Andrew Schenk (accl.) Deputyâ€"“Fm. Umbagh. Councillorsâ€"Shiels, Baets, Koenig. ARTEMESIA. Reeveâ€"A. Muir (ac-cl.) Deputyâ€"T. R. McKenzie. Councillcrsâ€"Alex. Carson, George Wright, Robert. Best. Majority for Councillors Black 42 Hunt 91 Kenny 31 McMillan 52 Nichol 69 I \Veir 133 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF GLENELG. position well. Reeves McCuaig 20 109 23 McFadden 1422 32 85 \Veir 133 22 7 26 34 222 Councillors electedâ€"Edwin Hunt, J. A. McMillan, Thomas Nichol. Wm. Weir. Pulling Subdivisionsâ€"No. 1, Ritchie’s 2, The Glen, 3, Max-kdale, 4 Tohermory 5, Tp. Hull. Reeveâ€"James S. \Vilson. Deputy Reeveâ€"John Dodsworth. Councillorsâ€"Alex. \Vilson, Rober‘ Grierson. George Noble. HANOVER. Top Cliff, Jan. 7, The Annual Meeting of the South Grey Agricultural Society will be held in the Town Hall, Durham. on Wed- nesday, January 15th 1908, at. 1 o’clock p.m. All members are earnestly in- vited to attend. Durham, D'ec. 28th, 1907. ‘ SPARLINGâ€"In Durham, on Wednes- day Jan. 8th, George J. Sparling, aged 49 years, 4 months, 28 days. The following gives the result by Vards for the different. candidates Wishing you a. Happy New Year Majority for Saundersâ€"37. a) £B hfi 2%? st 36 49 94 179 Majority for By-lawâ€"llS. GLENE LG. ‘ ~14 90 166 300 r 51 49 83 183 Majority for Calderâ€"117. Yours sincerely, BENTINUK. N otic e. DURHAM. Geo. Binnie, Pres. Chris. Firth, Sec’y. 61 18 43 18 78 1 13 9f). 32 85 46 67 a McFaddenâ€"135. 42 ARCH. MCCUAIG. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE “7 Totals 143 70 129 107 92 161 107 129 5 Totals 47 237 67 72 61 67 315 150 201 153 Do not think that because I am writing you this letter I think any more of you than I do of most of the other good people around Durham and neighborhood, for indeed I don‘t think so much of you, but anyway you will please publish this letter, that is if you can read it for the ship is pitching and tossing at a terrible rate and for the life of me I can neither sit steady nor hold the pen steady. Well. after leaving Durham we went, as most of you know, to Toronto where we stayed three weeks, thence to Hamilton, staying there two days. thence to Niagara Falls, staying at the Falls three days. We then finally took our departure from good old Canada (yes. I say good old Canada, for after visiting so many other coun- ties as we have since done and seeing the difference of the different people I I feel bound to look back and say afterl all “well good old Canada” with all your cold winters your people’s hearts are warm ”), and going direct to New York, where we stayed just one week, we embarked on the great Oc‘ean Liner “Celtic” of the \Vhite Star Line. She is 20,900 tons and about the fifth larg- est afloat, so big and so long indeed that on a rough sea, which we had, she runs smooth and easy, and there- fore sea sickness on her is almost unknown. 'But we do not realize how little and small we are until we finally arrive at Liverpool where the great ocean monarch (and since breaker of the world’s records) the “Lusitania” is lyingat anchor ready for her maiden Voyage across to New York. On Board Ship “Bromen” in Indian Now we leave both the Celtic and the Lusitania in the Liverpool harbor and take train for London where we stay but two days and we make for the dearest of all dear old lands, Erin’s Isle. After viewing the Dublin Exhi- bition, which by the way should be called the Canadian Exhibition, the only one exhibit that stands out head and shoulders above everything else is the Canadian exhibit. No wonder people are enticed out to that frozen North \Vest of yours. \Vell, after spending as happy a time in poor old Ireland for fOur weeks as we did in Glenelg for four months, we. again set sail for London going via Calias to Paris. Three days satisfied us in Paris although without doubt it is a grand city, the cleanest and prettiest we have yet seen. Now I won’t ask you to follow us all over the continent but just imagine yourself with us in Romeâ€"ancient and historical Rome- here ale sights to be seen. If some of you Americans would just come over and have one look at Rome you would never again boast of your buildings. Here stand some of the great works of Julius Caesar, erected over 2000 years ago and seemingly bidding defiance to time. Saint Peter’s, with it 11,000 rooms, is alone a world of Wonders in itself. W'ithout doubt Rome possesses the finest buildings in the world and I! verily believe the dirtiest people. Oh, Mr. Editor, I have too much respect for your paper to ask you to publish the sights that are to be seen in the main streets of Rome. Good-bye dirty Rome, now we are in Pompei, which is being gradually unearthed after being buried beneath Vesuvius for 1600 years. Here, indeed, is the field for the historian. Here are to be seen the buildings, the works of art. and the manners and customs of the people as they existed from about 100 years B. C. to 400 years A. D. Here are to be seen the bodies most wonder- fully preserved of animals and men and women just as they perished from the sulphur and the molten lava of this fearful looking mountain. Mr. Editor, I could write for four hours and would not fully describe this one place, but the waves are getting bigger 1 and the ship is rolling more and my! hand is getting less steady and I must; go up on deck or I will be sea sick] So once more afond farewell to one. and all the good people of Durham and neighborhood, with the sincere wish that both myself. wife and little Nellie may again visit the Canadian shore. DEAR MR. EDITOR: Yours very sincerely, JAMES BOLGER. P. S.â€"Since embarking at Naples we buried a. man at sea and another man jumped overboard to end his troubles, but after a great struggle was rescued. J. B. To THE ELECTORS or DURHAM. LADIES AND GENTLEMBN,-â€"I desire to thank you sincerely for the support you gave me in the recent election, by which you decided to re-elect me to the position of the Reeveship. I trust that my experience during the past year will he sufficient apprenticeship to ensure better services during the coming year than I was able to give in the past". Wishing you all a. Happy and Pros- perous New Year, AN AUSTRALIAN LETTER. fir 5E" 'M iv wfi‘i CARD 0]? THANKS. I am yours. etc., November 7th, 1907. S. P. SAUNDERS. g The Nicest Goods as Obtainable H.‘H. MOCKLER 5 We never attempted to ehow so large an assortmentâ€"all New designs and materials, so mob and beautiful and such a. variety that it would take a page to deseribe them. They’re in. however, and you may see them for the askmg. Prices 25c to $2.00, Drug Store Goods Can we Interest you ? Percy G. A. Webster, We carry Pinaeed’s, River’s and Colgate’s Perfumes, Toilet Waters, Face and Talcum Powders, ‘Satchets, Soaps and Toilet Re- quisites. Tooth, Nail, Hair and Clothes Brushes. Combs, Chamois, Sponges, Papet. ries, Pound Paper, Tablets and Envelopes to match. Calling cards, Playing Cards, and a fine line of Cigars. Candies, Drugs, Chemicals, etc., etc. Headquarters for Solid Gold Rings. We have them You want to see James R. Gun 82 Co., Druggists mm 'vz‘ Jan. 9. 1908 The Jeweller DURHAM.Jan . Fall Wheat ........ Spring W heat ...... ' - Oats ............. . ' ' Peas .............. Barley .............. :31] Butter. . . . . .. ...... .‘jé‘figgs . . . . . .......... f1“: =g;.-7j.P0tatoes per bag. XFIOUI‘ per CWt ...... ' tmeal per sack ..... _‘ I. hop per cwt.... *ifl'fi'} ive Hogs, per cwc. seed Hogs per mm. "I beg to ammum-e td bitizens of Durham :11 cinity that I ha \‘0 0pm] ,a, first-class Bun-lun- S] the MacIntyr-e Blm:-k w| “Will furnish all kinds ()1 class meats at rmlsui prices. Trial order 501i Then do business with H. H. M the Hanover Conveyance NEW B U TC H SHOP 200 acres. Glenelg. Frame Dwellim Ba'n, Good Farm, ought to bri: Will sell .or $3000. 100 acres on Durham Ruad. Bentim Farm. Bank Barn. Fair Dwellil tor 32.500. 100 acres. extra 9:.de Buildings ah th nearly the $23-00 asked Im‘ tl Near Crawford P .0. i acre building ’lot. in Dar!) -. m. 1 cheap, or trade for anytlnpg a :1 eat, wear, or through a suck at. Property bought and sold on Con Money to hand Debts collected Tickets and Ocean 'l‘vckets for sali of st'wck in Durham Cement (30., p my hands for sale cheap. McIntyre Block. wheres Gleneig s rlexdl 1 Imati g00_d_ Buildmgs cheap at $7.300 Ducks .......... ihickens ...... . Always Prompt, Never No DO you want to make 21)”ij Jan. 9, 1908 B. PHILLI 'IODMQQQQQ TOYS ! J. H. TEA I have a fine assortmefi of Perfumer, Hankerchie for your Xmas Present goods at right prices. C you our goods. I also b: Peels etc. Dressed Poul at. highest market: prices Market Repor Note the address But the stro: Emulsion ,is sick to get resu It keeps up t] on thin peOple, 1 brings color to a vent: coughs, co] well, young and H. H. Miller SAVE MONEY ? The Hanover Conv Most pe¢ been sick t .5701: to bri . And it com He offers: ALL DRUG 90 00 40 80 j 10 D11 40 30