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PAGE 4. fear, $1.25-2for six months, no for three months. Foreign scription rates on application. Member Canadian Weekly papers Association. _____â€"â€"â€"â€" ”YR S[.(f)PPY STREETS pate what their objects can DU the wanton destruction reported I) I. The condition of our front streets . . . . during the past wet spell has been from time to time in different parts h anything but satisfac-ory and it Of th“ country. From. \V00d§t09k must he admitted that the time is 60111931110 Story .Of '3 mOtOPISt "1 t at hand when something will have that (my “"10 deliberately ran mt? a to ilt‘ done. In the dry season our and smashed over .twenty mall ( front. streets are passable. but with him” on a rural ma” route _run- r1 the'heavy rains during the fall, to- ”mg out of that mt'y' 1“ an eight- : gether with melting snow and ice. mile stretch 9t road only ' . ' they were in a wretched state. ' boxes were lett undamaged. flhe ‘ Durham‘s streets are too high. made ot. procedure was torun into me time immemorial each year's them with a car he was drivmg and Councils have. kept our thorough- one witness states that she saw him fares in condition by the addition ”m ““0 one of the DOX.PostS and ot’ gravel. with the annual cleaning when .th“ first. crash ““1 “Qt 5“" out of the gutters to let the sur- COmltllsh the purpose be backed up plus water get :1an in time of and tOOk a second run at “a rain. The time has now come when Almost parallel. but poss1b1y “0t scaril‘ying is a necessitv. and in sQ deliberate is the summer pastime general is might be said that the ot some 01 th“ Younger boys around wars‘ accumulation of gravel will Durham who annually throw stones how have to be removed to brin- through the windows of the rink or the streets down to their proper some other \jacant building 1n.th.e level. This will cost money, but it tQWP- In “115 1fitter Instance 1t 13 will have to he done sooner or ditficult to understand why the boys later and might as well be com- of the. town 51.10““ .Want t9 wreok nienretl one year as another. the rink. This building .15 their The condition of our streets at winter playgrâ€"oundhand here .8131- esent is reallv out of the hands of thing to happen “ oereby 1t W01} (1‘ he destrO} ed there is no one who r1“ ., . . tilt- (.Oilntll and Board Oi. \\ OI‘ks. would SUITE? more than the youger To bring them up to anything near - the condition in which they should Defigfiafi’f figfufig‘fl's 3 mm“. min, he would cost. perhaps more than but such wanton dedructiveness. any tlouncil might Care to spend and -1 171 b .. 1 . l 1: "ti ~f ti: it might be advisable to‘ submit a 31.0“." e pioper 3 tea “I 1-1 e ~ oftenders are aioiprehended 1n~ the bylaw to the ratepayers. act ‘- A --.¢\'\‘ W 11 '18 L|\Iuvu .v .--., c There are some in town who want to pave. but at the present time we do not think this advisable. The y that once a street is paved the troubles are over is not correct as there is always a certain amount of repair work to be done. ' :. Without a waterworks system. we certainly do not think it the wisest move to put in pave» ment. only to tear it up later to instal water mains. Any road en- ";Mm. ml] hear us out in this it. the wisest move ment. only to tear instal water mains. gineer will bear statement. :luh‘ l.‘\.-. \\'e (1 think. however. that some action should be taken to put\ur Tl streets. especially the principal ones. in propel- repair. With the removed and the TI surplus " avel streets rouglit down to their prOper level and properly graded. Durham could have gravel road- l1 way that would be almost as good‘ as payem . cost. and with proper storm sewers installed the upkeep would be no more than that for pavement. It is the water lying on the roa ' no place to ru off. that. works 1: havoc with our main streets. no. the traffic. Properly drained. graded. and tarred. the town could have the best thoroughfares in this part of the country. and at a much snzaller outlay than most towns. All it. needs is a little co-operation on the part of the ratepayers. some ' constructive ideas. and a desire on the part of all to beautify our town ‘ and bring it. up to the conditions modern traffic demands. We would like to hear from any . number of our readers on .this matter..t‘or it is from a m of opinions that ideas are born. Durham‘s street problems are im- portant topics and should be dealt ' ry angle before a 'a made. While there may be a multitude of ideas as to which is our high the best way to improve ways. all should be willing to Eis- ten to the other fellow, and from some! the whole may -be derived scheme whereby the conditions which have existed on our streets this past tall may be remedied. So far as we can learn from any in. quiries we have made. citizens have only one opinion regarding the preâ€" sent condition of our ' thorough- 12 19 w hat tho-99 13 14 opinions 16 News- 17 31 subâ€" WEATHER PROPHETS The time of the year -is at hand for the annual crop of weather pro- phets to assert themselves and pre- dict the kind of weather conditions we may expect in the next three or four months. Under ordinary conditio quite safe to predict snow in all the months fr m now until April, with frost at intervals between now and May flowers are in us it is bloom. m the Shallow Lake One seer fro district predicts mild weather be-1 cause of a thunder-storm that pas- sed over that locality some days . The prediction is for six ‘ weeks of mild weather, the claim ' that during the past ' as never been known 1‘0 maLLBI' Wuao JV .5. --:7_ us from now until next spring, and we are prepared to take what feel safer in predicting that this has been one of the finest Fall seasons in- our memory, and We think there are few who will dis- pute uS. __... . 11.3.. nfiiin‘“‘r \L’Qnig no‘vo I'NCALLED-FOR DESTRUCTION It is hard to understand some -. ' harder to antici- ‘_-L nus“ nhionfq can be in L’C'L’lJILI us pate whatuthe'ir objects can be 1n the wanton destruction reported from time to time in different parts comes the story of a motorist in that city who deliberately ran into and smashed over twenty mail boxes on a rural mail route run-‘ out of that city. In an eight- lning mile stretch of road only three left undamaged. The boxes were made of procedure was to run into them with a car he was driving and one witness states that she saw him mm mm mm of the boxposts and 1.t1n Into 011k: Ol L'IITJ LIV.‘ . I" v.. - - when the first. crash did not ac- complish the purpose be backed up and took a second run at it. Almost parallel. but possibly not So deliberate is the summer pastime of some of the younger boys around Durham who annually throw stones through the windows of the rink or some other vacant building in the town. In this latter instance it is dill‘icult to understand why the boys of the. town should want to wreck the rink. This building is their winter playground and were any- thing to happen whereby it, would be destroyed there is no one who more than the youger \Vell Hugh. up And break the shadows on the| pool. The sun hides out behind the hill As if to greet the evening star. Write us again. I’ll meet you yet Teacher (during History lessoniz ‘\\ hat, are the races that haxe dom- inated England since the im asion 01‘ the Rgmans.“ 9” 01 [I It: flUluauc. Small B0 ”The Derby and the Grand National. Miss.” U It DLULJ .. __ it} VVho deliberatel} ran into :niashed 0V er tVV enty mail on a rural mail route run- out of that citV. In an eight- stretch of road 0an three VV'm‘e 19f undamaged. The Seimâ€"In ; ’ormanby. December 4, . Milton Seim, a up I‘ve reached you with 11 t] BORN the‘ bull-rush ”VII u v - â€"v_ a - V- ' . Bfi‘én’t“ $f§f°3v§5§§§§2ya f‘fi‘é‘éfi- faacg’ogngpgggggggggfi Wlth an 30-â€" erton. Miss Adeline Becker of Walker- Bern'ard Welton, preprietor 0f the {grrlnwggldgr giggftwegikPgd and Mrs. Munshaw House. Flesherton, ap- Mrs. Robert Keith. of Egremont reared before Magistrate Crea-sor in is a patient in Durham hospital, police court at Owen Sound on where she underwent an operation Monday afternoon on two charges for appendicitis. Drs. Jamieson of of offenses against the Liquor Durham and Sneath of Dromore Control Act. He was first charged were the surgeons. Mrs. Keith is, ' c are pleased to say. domg well. with having liquor in a place with- w . out having a permit. and the other Mr. J. D. McFayden ot‘ Glenelg 1s charge was of having liquor in a nursing a broken wrist, the result of place other than a priVate guest his car kicking back when cranking ' on it in preparation to coming to town room. \Velton pleaded guilty _ both counts. but he was not ready to church on bunday. x tn proceed with the case, and an , . . adjournment was granted until 1.30 It will P92! you '30 adverttse m _ o‘clock yesterday afternoon at The Chromcle. . FIPSheI'tOII. \VhCn the C350 was tried. ____=___________â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"______â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"_â€"=â€"â€"f . The charges were laid as the re- N 3 sult of a visit. to the hotel some ____.____._â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"---â€"â€"'-"â€"" 3 days ago of Provincial Constable , , Denton and \Vidmeyer and Inspecâ€" NOBLE S G AR AGE l tor M. C. Beckett. are a. man, she is hoping agai that you might b cause he used to come and and bring her pretty shoes doesn't come any more. “ ----- + aanflprgta L I 9..) Shoesâ€"for Dorothy â€"â€" Mr. George Kress was up from Toronto over the week-end to see his father, Mr. M. Kress, who has hen unwell for the past week of ten mm and threatened with an at-_ Thursday v Barrister Gnant RECEIVED RE ANNU AL Local Branch of field Interestin: ham Hospital Papers Read a Toronto Conve: The \Vnmun‘s the Durham 11...“! A goodly nmniw ed dCSpih} Hm weather. After “1“ HFHJ and blbinl's u 4 Mrs. Jamm- Mail! able 1m HUM listed \Vnru m. anthOI‘S. 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