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The council met April 7, pursu- ant to adjournment, all the mem- bers present, the reeve in the chair; minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. Communications read as follows: Geo. A. Putnam, re appointment to the Board of Agriculture; Westâ€" ern Hospital. Toronto, claim for one Edward Sills; Duncan Morrison, claim for work from Hugh McGann; Robt. Lindsay and \V. J. Hamilton, claims for work on roads; W. A. McLean. re appointment of a road superintendent. 00000000000000000000 000000 ooomonoooomouuuw 4 Peart-Blackâ€"That the Clerk write to W. A. McLean, deputy- minister of public highways, re ap- pointing a road superintendent. ’ annbull-Mclnnisâ€"That D. Edge be appointed to represent the township of Glenelg on the Board of Agriculture. Peartâ€"Blackâ€"That Hugh McGann he paid $3 for work on roads. ficInnis-Peartâ€"That Geo. Stew- art be paid 81, refund of dog tax, as he had no dog in 1916. Turnbull-Mclnnisâ€"That acdbunts be paid as follows: James Crutchley, work on roads, $3, half cost; Robt. Lawson, work on town line B. and (3.. half cost. $1; R. Lindsay, work at lots 59 and 60, con. 2. E.G.R., $1.50: W. J. Firth, work on Lambton street. $1: D. C. Clark, re- pair of washout at lot '1, con. 4. $1. Peartâ€"Mclnnisâ€"That A. S. Hunter be paid $11.90 for stove for the hall, and that. H. Beaten be paid $2 for hauling and setting up same. McInnisâ€"Turnbullâ€"That John J. Black be paid $5 for work on road. Blaclqâ€"Mclnnjsâ€"That J. P. Tel- ford be paid $8 for wrist watch for Geo. Young, a recruit. McInnis-P.Im‘°kâ€"â€"Tlmt the Clerk be paid $120 on salary. Pmu‘tâ€"Bluck That \V. J. Hamliton he paid $3. half cost work on town line Ulenelg and Markdale. McInnis-Turnbullâ€"That assessor be paid $25 011 salary. TurnbulI-Mclnnis â€"â€" That George. Whitmore be paid $3.75, half cost '1‘ tile for town line, Egremont and Glenelg. Peart-Blackâ€"That S1 for nafls and $3 refund from Artemesia for expenditure 0n town line in 1916 be. accepted from Thus. Nichol. Black-Poart-That Chis. Mortle‘ be appointed pathmastnr, i’n placn Special Prices on Feed We have a stock of good heavy mixed Feed on hand which we are selling at special prices in ton lots. If you need Feed get our prices. The Rob Roy Cereal Mills Ce. Phones ‘81“ ’D 1’73 GLBNELG COUNCIL Money Orders and Drafts are issued by this Bank payable in all .parts of the world. 234 flURHAM BRANCH; b, DUI Mam PAGE 2. Oatmeal Millers. HEAD OFFICE - TORONTO l’uurtâ€"Blackâ€"That Jerry McAssey be paid $6 for plowing road 6.) Markdale. v The council adjourned to May a, at 10 a. m. of Alex. Wilson, resigned. Blurkâ€"McInnisâ€"That John 0le 1w paid $10 for plowing road on 211:! (':<_)1‘1(*essi<)n, and Sideline 20. Peurt-'1‘urnbullâ€"That \V. Swen- my be paid $5 for plowing Ijoad in five beats. BUT FOR THE GALLANT DEFENSE PUT UP BY BELGIUMâ€" it is admitted that the French Ar- my would have been swamped, Par- is taken, the French Western Coast occupied, England unable to send any army to the continent, and Germany thus in possession of ex- tensive submarine bases would have threatened British shipping even more so than to-day. Thus we owe our very life to Belgium. Have we done enough for this gallant Ally? On receipt of the German ultimat- um in August, 1914, Belgium might have sent a strong protest, allowed the. German hordes to pass and thought she had done enough. BUT NO! After Liege held out longer than the most sanguine expected, after the flower of the Belgian army had been sacrificed to allow the mobili~ zation of the Allies, Belgium might have cried enough! BUT NO! After the fall of Brussels, after! the great defence of Antwerp, Bel- gium still standing almost alone a- gainst the most powerful military power in the world, might have laid down her arms and said éenough! . BUT NO! After the race for the North Sea, after the checking of the German advance on the Yser, the Belgian army which had been in the field before any other, without reserves to draw upon, might have called out enough! BUT NO! The whole of Belgium occupied, millions facing starvation, separate peace, restoration and compensa- tion were offered King Albert. He might have said: I have done enough! BUT NO! Loyal to his Allies. helping them to the last, trusting to them to look after his starving people, he fought ,on' for the cause of Humanity. Can we betray that trust? Have we done enough for the people who have given their all for Humanity and have nuu'tgaged in that cause all they may have for the next hunâ€" dred years? Have. we given enough? Perhaps we never can do enough, but we may start now and persevere in our efforts to save in- nocent starving women and child- ren. OF CANADA Send your contributions to A. De JARDIN, Hon. Sec. Treas Belgian Relief 59 St. Peter St., MONTREAL. Will you not constitute yourself :1 “committm of one“ and help to further the cause?.’]‘ho Bolgizms need your help. THE J. S. BLACK, Clerk. ! KAISER CAN’T LIVE LONG And German PeOple Won’t Have the Crown Prince as a Sovereign London. April 5.-â€"-The Morning Post gives prominence to a despatch from its \Vashington correspondent, who cables 3. report. given on the authority of German bankers in America, who are on most intimate terms with the German Government, that the German Emperor is fatally ill of Bright’s disease. Death is expect- ed withiu the next few months. The Emperor, accoréing to the cor- respondent’s informant, has for some months past been in the depths of depression. The efforts of his phy- sicians and entourage to rally him have been unsuccessful, and the dis~ ease has so completely fastened itself upon him that recovery is impossible. .A‘leLI- I_ “r'l‘he c01 respondent adds:â€" "\Vith his death, according to the Geiman bank ers. the House of Hohenzollein will lose the th1one of Germany. as the Crown Prince is known to be a nio1al degenerate. and the German people could not accept himas thei1 sow e1 eign. Eithe1 Germany will becomearepublic or .1 limited constitutional monarchy the ieal poweI being exercised by a Pailiament elec ted by unix eisal franchise. It is the opinion of the German bankeis, knowing the condi- tions existing in Ge1111a11y and the tempeiament of the German people, that unless them should be a sudden upiising. which they do not now anticipate, a constitutional monamhy rathel than a 1epublic will be the out- come.’ Kingston. April 8.â€"â€"A horse driven by ‘Villiam Hamilton of Finkle’s liv- ery dropped dead in its track: when it passed over a. piece of roadway in Portsmouth that had been charged with electricity as a. result of a broken electric wire. Mr. Hamilton jumped off to see what the trouble was. and in touching the horse received quite a shock. but his life was saved owing to the fact that he wore rubbers. St. Thomas, April 8.â€"Court pro- ceeding threatened against Alderman C. A. Hammond by Dr. F. E. Bennett, Eresident of St. Thomas Horticultural Shoiety, for damages following an attack by the Alderman on the doctor at a meeting of the City Council Com- mittee last Monday, when the doctor’s nose was broken, have been averted by a settlement of the case, Alderman Hammond paying Dr. Bennett $600. UNION CEMENT COHPAN Y TO BE ENLARGED BY AMERICANS There is a very great probability that the Union Cement Company will be doubled in capacity during the pres- ent year and that in 1918 the output will be in the neighborhood of 2,000 l barrels per day. The matter has been! engaging the attention of the manag-i ment for some time past and is now ‘ rapidly aproaching completion. The present capitalization of the company is 8200.000 and this will be increased to $1,000,000, the additional capital being provided by Chicago capitalists. The work of enlarging the plant will pro- ceed during the summer and will not interfere with the season’s operations. The contract for the enlargement has been let provisionally to the Fuller Engineering Company of Allentown. Pa., and the work will be gone on with at an early date. 1500 horse power will be provided by the Utilities Com- ' mission and electric power will entire- 1y supersede the steam in the new ; plant. This change will be effected l shortly. The American capitalists that are providing the additional funds were in town last week and went thorough- ly into the matter and have given as- surances that the money will be avail- able in a short time. There is hardly a. possibility of the matter not being consummated and an application to Parliament Will shortly be made per- mitting theincrease of capital. Thiswill be a most important addi- tion to one of Owen Sound’s estab- lished industries and Will be welcomed by the citizens in all parts of the town. The extra capacity will tend to de- crease the cost of production, and as the market is at present good, With prospects of an early heavy demand, there will be no difficulty in disposing of the output. The plant Will be equal to any in the Dominion and With the raw material available with its cheap transportation the plant should be a real money~saver. No inducements will be asked from the town and the mortgage of $60,000 that the munici- pality now holds will cover the addi- tions that are to be made. increasing the security five foldâ€"Owen Sound Sun. KILL FLIES AND SAVE LIVES Kill at once every fly you can find and burn his body. Observers say that there are many reasons to beheve there Will be more flies this season than for a. number of ye_a_.rs. 1 O... I . ‘ n ‘V J 'The killing of just one fly NOW means there will be billions and trill- ions less next bummer. ' The :re‘ry preéence of a fly is 5. signal and notificatiofi‘ that a housekeeper is uncleanly and inefficient. ' Clean up your own premises; see and insist that, your neighbors do like- wise. Itiis definitely known that the fly is the “carrier” of the germs of typhoid fever; it is Widely believed that it is also the "carrier” of other diseases. in- ch_1_c_1ing possibly infantilenparalysgs. Jspecially clean “out-of-the-way- places,” and every nook ana cranny. r“VI-51197,; Will 110% go Where thefe is nothing to eat and their piincipal diet 15 too filthy to mention. The fly has no equal as a germ “car- rier,” as many as five hundred million germs have been found in and on the bo_dy_ of_ a‘single ij. ' 1‘ . 1‘ II RUBBER BOOTS SAVED LIFE THE FLY IS THE TIE THAT BINDS THE UNHEALTHY TO THE HEALTHY! $600 FOR BROKEN NOSE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. In potato growingprovinces likei New Brunswick there is always moreJ or less discussion as to what it should1 cost to grow a good crop of potatoes and statements vary from as low as; $40.00 per acre to as high as $125.00. Naturally there will be much varia- tion in cost according to local con- ditions and especially to the ability of the land to produce without ex- pensive fertilizing. It should be borne in mind that it will usually cost the potato specialist more to grow his crop than it will the farmer who follows mixed farming and makes his potato crop merely one of his many activities. W'ith a view to getting actual figures under average conditions in New Brunswick. a careful record has been 1 made at the Dominion Experimental . Station, Fredericton, for the past two j seasons with an acre of land set apart for this particular purpose. Neither rent of land nor depreciation of machinery was included in the calculation, for these two are items that are largely in the hands of the individual grower. As a general rule, however. it would be fair to charge as rent. 10?; of the value of the land. and special potato machinery will de- preciate from 25% to 50% per year if used steadily for ten days each season. In 1915. the depreciation of the potato digger alone, used at the Experimen- tal Station. was $6.00 per acre. 11:1915. the acre was planted with Green )‘Iountain, Irish Cobbler and Empire State. Seed. cultural opera- tions and harvesting'cost in all $67.93. Eighty barrels of 165 pounds each of ; marketable potatoes were obtained and sold at $1.75 per barrel making a profit over cost of production of 90 cents per barrel. Seven barrels of culls were sold for $3.50, so that the total pi ofit for the acre amounted to $75.50. This land was rather wet naturally and during the very rainy weather of June and July was several times flood- ed, causing missed hills and inferior plants generally. This land was origin~ ally cleared many years ago and after cutting hay for thirty years it was allowed to grow up to spruce. birch and alder. It was again cleared in 1913 an_d grew buckwheat in 19l4. ‘Aâ€" Q qu1916. an acre was planted with Green Mountain seed. The total cost amounted to $82.33. the increase over 1915 being due to high priced seed, higher priced ferti- lizer ingredients and very dear copper sulphate. One hundred and twenty barrels of marketable potatoes were harvested and could have been sold at $2.25 per barrel, making a. profit per barrel over cost of production of $1.565. plus six barrels of culls at 50 cents, $3.00. mak- ing_ a. total profit of $190. 20. Market firice when potatoes were dug was $2.25per barrel. Later they could have been sold at $3,135, but are This land rew hay for many years and was bro em up and grew potatoes with 750 pounds fertilizer in 1913, corn with 18 tons barnyard manure in 1914, oats without manure in 1915. This land is on a slope, fairly well drained and except for washing out slightly between the rows felt no bad effects from the June deluge. held f seed. This: and or The annual report; of the Hydro- Electric Commission shows that the total capital investment; of the Com- mission is $14,019,374. The amounts due the Province for advances made come to $13.586,667; There are in the Province 1,321 miles of low tension transmission lines of voltages varying from 46,000 to 23,200 volts. The Niagara system has 840 miles of low tension lines. Eugenia. Falls, 219: Severn, 102; Wasdell’s Falls, 65; St. Lawrence, 66, and Muskoka sy_s_t_em, 26. I‘ll - 'J"‘â€" __ The surplus on the operations of the Niagara syst em for the year just closed amounted to $351,833. The expendi- tures on the system, includinginterest on invested capital, amounted to $1,- 686,958. The receipts. therefore, amounted to $2,038, .792. The Port Arthur system showed a surplus of $4,963; t_he Wasdell’s Fall system,’_$i:1‘,- A‘ ‘A- A. 369; St. Eewrence, $3,669; Sévern, $40.- 256. The Eugenia Falls system showed a deficit on operation of $12,120. An elephant that would have made the late lamented Jumbo look like a mere midget. frisked about where Shelburne, Dufferin county, now is; and then disappeared. The glacial period may have enveloped this par- ticular pachyderm. All this happened in the far away past. - But the absent one has reappeared. B our huge packing cases have arrived at the Provincial Museum. Gould snreet. and the mammal is insideâ€"or, rather, What remains of it. R. B. Orr, director of the Museum, is lather proud these days 0 W. Nash. the naturalist, is interested. The Italian sculptor attached to the institution sees some novel work a- head. And all because a Mammoth’s bones. with here and there something gone, hzue been purchased from an ()ueu Soun man. But Mr. Nash knows what a. self- respecting mammoth would be when 11 its prOper frame of mind and con- itruction, and he will sketch the minus sarts. The oflicial sculptor will make p’he cast. and when his plaster Qroduct ts finished, the departed shade of the imammoth will approve. It may be enlightening to kn 3W that the mammoth belonged to the postâ€"Tertiary or Pleistocent epoch, and was contemporaneous with man. Northern Sioeria was afavored haunt, but the northern part of the American continent knew the giant ttisker. Toronto’s new feature must have been a formidable figure in its prime. An [rshaped box contains a. curved tusk that’s nine feet long and. when in its proper position in the jaw, must have been longer. Two Other cases are 3 by 4 feet, and a fourth is 8 feet high. And at that, some of the bones have mingled with mother earth and vanished. That no Longer Gambols. but Seems to Keep Moving. THE COST OF GROWING POTATOES Experimental Farm Notes ANNUAL HYDRO REPORT A MAMMOTH if!!! lt‘ [I‘ll zOQOzQOQOOO‘OOzOOOzE 900:6 9.000909%:6 EOOOOOQOQOEOOOQOOOOOQOOOOOQQ‘EOO‘ BE sure to buy a paint that measures up to highest standard in Appearance, Durability and Covering. Capaoity. If it lacks these qualities, you’ll be disappointed 1n the Job and soon ml} have to do it over again. Run no risk. Be certain of the result before spending your money. The ONTARIO WIND ENGINE mm and PUMP COMPANY When You Paint Your Home problems. -H “ENGLISH“PAINT LENAHAN MCKECHNIE DURHAM - ONT. W. D. Connor Durham - 0n Manufacture the Cheapest and the Best Pumping O u tf i t 0 n t h e Market. April 26, 1917. Seld by KM. Ontario who \erv. \Is‘llvu with an am'imlllum Commissinn uf (. Dundas mmnty in iug members (:17 Ufa maimed at home U- farm. Nu farmer had taken lhv mom ily imu active and ship in the farm on It is essential U. best buys r01“. help in deve what it (MUM of our farm suited fur H farming. but for farming MAKE THE BOY A by Lydia E. Pi got in such a 10‘ the family. I b all the time an severe case of be an invalid, I advised my hm and it has enti in the garden t as though it s they have bee! If you mm due Co. (oonl April A Clean is the birth ° less unclean brings the artiess ways to infection you can use It is a wo fi'ee latheri: Pinkh. 1‘0 “121 ll H Ill 1917.1