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Durham Chronicle (1867), 11 Oct 1928, p. 2

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u v ---'v“ church on Sabbath last on Temper- ance. an address that was well worth listening to, and full information. Two things that struck us as being rather unique, was the fact that she did not mention politics, nor any member of parliament. the other was that she did Ford Sales and Service . Miss C. R. Dufl', Provincial Field Worker for the W. C. T. U., spoke to the pupils of the public school on Wed- nesday last, and for almost an hour held their attention; their interest never flagged. Miss Dufl spoke along the lines of Mr. Ferguson’s schoolbook on Temperance. One fact was brought to light. viz., that small boys are learn- ing to smoke cigarettes, though the ; law states that they may not be sold to boys under eighteen. and Public Schools.â€"Grand Valley Star and Vidette. In a recent sport flsherman’s con- test of province-wide area, held in Hamilton and reported in the Toronto Star, R. Verne Russell, of Hamilton. formerly of Dundalk, won first place in fly rod accuracy and also in fly rod distance. He defeated T. W. Jull, of Toronto Anglers’ Association and known as one of the finest fly casters in the Dominion. Verne got most of his fly casting exeprience over on the Mad River, near Badjeros .-Dundalk Herald. Mr. Russell was a former principal of Grand Valley Continuation Won Provinc la] Honors chased at the local warehouse, but. op- ened enroute to Hanover, which is contrary to law.â€"Walkerton Telescope. C. A. The police found beer 1n the car of Gladstone McIntyre, between here and Hanover some time ago. It be- longed to Racher, who was in the au- to. The charge against McIntyre was Alvin Racher, of Hanover, was fined $100 and costs of $8.75 in police court here last Saturday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of violating the L. Fined $100 and Costs shut-out. With the score tied at 2 all in the seventh, Leo came to bat and poled out a. homer, winning the game. We congratulate our neighbors in win- cardlne on Tuesday in final game by a score of 3 to 2. Leo Oberle, of For- mosa, who hurls for Teeswater, was directly responsible for the victory. He was accorded bad infield support in the first three innings, but stuck brave- l_y to his job and actually deserved a! Tm” Wins League Honors ~16 spoke in the United bour Monday afternoon, carrying some of the workmen to an icy dip in the water. The derrick was being used in building the trestle to the site of the new elevator and everything was pro- gressing smoothly when the accident perienced great difficulty in swimming to the nearby raft. One workman named Wright was less fortunate. He Suddenly toppling from its support the arm of the derrick which holds the hoists was thrown into the har- Accident at Elevator It has been remarked frequently this season that American drivers of motor cars in this district have shown a reckless spirit while using the high- ways, and careful drivers were becom- ing nervous for fear of meeting them. Recently the Ontario Safety League has issued statistics gathered by them and they show that a high percentage of American cars are responsible for‘ accidents. Of 60 accidents probed 6 were fatal and 108 persons injured. or ses. This is rather too large a per- centage, and some means should be taken to warn Americans at the bor- der that careful driving would be ap- preciated in Canada.â€"Walkerton Tel- escope. -v\':.'..'. ---"- “'.' ' new and very comfortable seats. We understand that at some early date a formal opening of the new school will be arranged. Mildmay residents are justly proud of this fine new school building.â€"Mildmay Gazette. Monday was a red letter day for the pupils and teachers of the Mildrnay Separate School section. The magni- ficent new school was ready for occu- pation that day, and all enjoyed the noielty of their new surroundings. The new School is a four-roomed build- ing, three of which are now in use. It is equipped with steam heating, drinking fountains, electric lights and modem lavatory system. The school rooms are bright and cheerful, splen- didly ventilated and are equipped with New School Opened .__â€"â€"â€"â€"v'â€" â€"-'v 56 hills, but these favored ‘murphies’ did only half as well as the Green Mountain production de hareâ€"Thorn- bury Herald. lmail, had increased to a total weignt of 325 pounds, the southern class gaining a little advantage. Twelve Dooley potatoes were also planted into an 1‘ 9“ It That it pays to experiment is shown in the results obtained by Mr. C. R. Landry, Townline North, in the grow- ing of potatoes. Last Spring he receiv- ed from the Department of Agriculture twenty-four potatoes or the Green Mountain variety which were equally divided into southern and northern classes. Each class when out up, was ‘ suflicient to plant 66 hills. After Mother Nature had done her worn through the summer months, the pack- age of potatoes that arrived here by “-Al‘ 1â€". J â€"'-- - Yankee Drivers More Reckless ? CW Model $82.50 r.-:l'-'lesherton Advance. Twelve since 1914. :33; A typhoid ca 1e Green years ago nevei â€"Thorn- ment in which be consumed b: lated as the ca break in Gre during which tl ' for the score of others ‘ “may Mrs. H. A. An magni- Picton, 0nt., ha '1' 00011- in machinery : red the band’s dairy on mdings. of her scalp w :1 build- She will recover in 1158- Fireman Bla] heating, theatre, London, ats and which had be: school theatre, and ban splen- who gave the fix ed with Viscount Lasce s. We Princess Mary, re date a ing when they a1 >01 will Saturday. Some as they drove to ‘5 are for breakfast. A a crowd of 500 pa oooooooo Aâ€"- L- 13013qu that fag becomes .â€"-Kincardine } The principal of the Kitchener Col- legiate, who sent a girl home to put on more clothes, saying she was not de- cently dressed, the other day, went a little too far in our opinion. What if the girl in question went to school wearing a low-neck, no sleeve dress ? Most people will agree that it was a foolish thing to do, but the principal of any school has no business trying to tell a student how she should was struck on the back and shoulder by a large beam and painfully, though not seriously injured. The victim was recued from the water by fellow em- lpIOYees, being unable to swim on ac- count of his injuries. Wright was im- mediately rushed to a doctor and after receiving first aid was taken to his home. The others after a change of clothing were soon back on the Job, none the, worse for their autumn bath. . â€"Col1ingwood Enterprise. 1 Twenty-four hours before he died, Thomas Madigan, former sheriff of Hudson _co_unty, N. J ., summoned his The report of Murray A. Lang, New York diamond merchant, that he had been kidnapped on a downtown street in San Francisco, Calif,, carried away in an automobile, robbed of $200,000 in gems and then left tied to a étree in a park, mystified the San Francisco police. Lang said that the jewels were insured for about $150,000. ities. Harry E. (“Dad”) Vail, coach of the University of Wisconsin rowing crew since 1911, and former nationally known as a sculler, died Monday at Gagetown, N. 3., according to word received today by university author- Objected to Girlfs Lack of Clothes â€"_ vâ€"'--â€"-- said today when informed by the United Press that the United States supreme court had declined to re- view the case. Preparations for the execution of William Edward Hickman, slayer of Marion Parker, are proceeding at San Quentin prison, Calif., on the theory that the youth will go to the gallows October 19, Warden James Holohan 'i'nree passengers were killed and eight injured recently, when a bomb shattered a car of a train en route to Bombay. A newspaper correspondent reported that it was believed the bomb was being taken to Bombay by Anarchists to await the arrixial of the royal commission on Indian reforms. headed by Sir John Simon. The com- missioner is due at Bombay shortly. Captain Hermann Koehl of trans- atlantic flying fame as a member of the crew of the aeroplane Bremen, narrowly escaped injury Monday in an automobile accident at Weissen- thurm, Germany. He is now on a' lecture tour in the Rhineland, and his 1 automobile. a gift from American ad- ’ mirers, was badly damaged. .- v v v ‘- v-ovua as they drove to the Vice-regal lodge for breakfast. At the quay, however, a crowd of 500 persons, mostly women, awaited them, and some who carried Union Jacks waved them loyally. The princess and her husband will go to Portumna Castle, County Galway, . Two hunting accidents, one of them fatal, occurred in Montreal district over the week-end. Casare Balderelli, 20, of Delson, Quebec, died when a gun he kicked discharged its bullet into his body. Maria Mantel, 25, was i wounded in the abdomen when her shotgun accidentally discharged. Viscount Lascelles and his wife, Princess Mary, received a mixed greet- ing when they arrived in Dublin early Saturday. Some persons booed them A_ .LA Fireman Blake 0: the Adelphl theatre, London, picked up a £50 note which had been dropped in the theatre, and handed it to the owner, who gave the fireman £25. Mrs. H. A. Anderson, who lives near Picton, Ont, had her hair entangled in machinery shafting in her hus- band’s dairy on Monday, and patches of her scalp were literally torn off. She will recover. since 1914. A typhoid carrier, who was directed years ago never to engage in employ- iment in which he handled food to be consumed by others, has been iso- lated as the cause. of a typhoid out- break in Greenwich Village, N .Y., during which two persons died and a score of others were made ill. that he will make a tour of Japan this year with a team of major league players for exhibition games against Japanese teams. ~ Following an illness of several weeks from heart trouble, Anson Spotton, county judge of Wellington, died at his home in Guelph Saturday night. 1 Judge Spotton was in his fifty-ninthl '_'U ' ' Rio Janeiro for Montevideo on the steamship Southern Cross, His oom- panions were Pilots‘ Carl Ben Eiel- son and Joseph Crossan and Mechan- three other me‘fiibeg' Hf ms sorta polar expedition geflegl Setur'day from 15:- 1... -L- 7 - Daily Events as Told by Cable Condensed for Busy Chronicle Readers occupied his fiosition THE DURHAM CHRONICLE kneeling behind Iii}: and hand on each heel he said: these two dear little boys.” Mistaken Identity ‘At a revival meeting converts coming 'forward by the dozen. gro came striding - down the 8.151 drapped to his knees. He was footed, and two enormous feet up behind him. Word of a brutal murder near Coe- hlll, 0nt., caused consternation in Belleville police circles Saturday. Two provincial ofiicers, fully armed, were ready to start for the scene of the crime when belated particulars ar- rived. It was a dog that had been shot and killed. _ 'cause his sister, Mrs. Ruby James, 9066 North Martindale avenue, refused to loan him her automobile to take a girl friend to a football game. The boy is in Providence Hospital with a bullet lodged a few inches below his heart. Physicians pronounce his con- dition serious. Eugene Wesler,16-year-old student at Northwestern High School, Detroit, attempted suicide this week be- seriously Injured when a train strack a motor bus filled with tourists neal Kaschau, Czecho-Slovakia. ___-v v v-°-.v UALVW were fired in all. Magistrate Vance in Juvenile Court, Hamilton, Saturday, ordered five lads convicted of stealing pears from Matthew Burton, Ancaster, to work after school hours for three days next week. Burton will have the boys gather potatoes. The farmer said his crop disappeared and he learned that the accused boys sold pears at 15 cents a basket. Magistrate Vance said that to steal fruit to sell is more serious than taking a supply to eat, but added that the latter course is not lawful. A daring crime which so far has baffled the police was perpetrated during the night at the fair grounds, Caledonia, Ont., October 7, when the mg. .in farm buildings where live stock are housed. There is no disinfectant more powerful than sunshine. It is a pity. therefore, in this enlightened age, to see buildings with the sun almost ex- cluded. Dirt and disease germs lurk where darkness conceals their pres- ence. To throw open the door of a stuffy stable on a sham morning ic a LET THE SUN INTO I The Women's Institute is subsidizing Dr. Hamill '5 work for a year at least ’and are now receiving the congratula- tions of the residents of the Tober- mory district on their acumen. It is understood that Dr. Hamill will be in London for the annual conven- tion of the Western Ontario Women’s Institutes, when all the members will be given the opportunity to meet him. Crane. of London, as adviser. Thei appointment has just been ratified. ‘ Dr. Hamin has had a long experi- ence. After his graduation he prac- ticed his profession in the Northern Light and air [doctor at Toberx'norx. In the past there has been no doctor within a re- dius. of 45 miles of Tobermory and for some time the Womens Institutes of the Province have been interested in securing a competent practitioner for the district. The Ontario Women’s Institute an- nounces that Dr. Hamill, a native of Wiartbn, has been appointed the first Dr. Hamill to be First-Medical Practi- WIARTON MAN IS Ontario w. I. to Subsidiie Work For First Year at Least. open the door of a a sharp morning is a NEW APPOINTEE BUILDING S BATES BURN] Phone KI 4344 122-124 Avenue Rd, Toronto John W. Bates R. Haddocks FORMERLY OP FLESHBRTON I t will pay 3 The Chronicle. . -CVul LI tan. conditions. G006, zoning important as good. foo , o t t y unth 15061! are kept heal h 5 108': are inevitable. and revelatmn, for the place of hot, noxious fumes. 1 verily xA‘A Nut contest: “What nuts are told toles? Chestnuts: What u sandy coast? Beechnut; Wh should be eaten with bread? 1 nut? What nut can make vegetable soup? Pecan: W11 gives two boys‘ names? Filbert The company are now and ready for some contest Known only to tht- hasten : or five unluckS‘ spots in the r0 3 whistle-blast the hand-shalt required to stop where tht still grasping the hand they 1n shaking. and the couple caught first unlucky spot are required or arrange a tableau. 1‘ ‘t sh near the piano. the performer: be required to sing or arrange leau. If it should be near a z or register, the suggestion m: that they Show by pantomine 1 light a fire or shovel coal. W‘O‘NONC'OOHOHOOQHOHO-fl-'0‘ Have the house dimly liahl candles instead of electricity. the living-room door have a b built and each guest may: h: choice of climbing over it or 1 under. The hostess and 38518‘ be dmssed as witches and fa guised in same way as guest: guests are instructed to start hands with the left hand in the right. calling all whom me: nize by name and recording guess by an X on the face victim. The person least w in concealing his idenzm is p later by being compelled tr some ludicrous stunt. Dear Ruth Raebum. I would like to entertain a 'of young people on Hallowen and would be grateful for a gestions for entertainment. know Oh! Gee! Aren't you excited“; We entertain on Halloween And this means you‘re lln'llm Please come disguised ‘11 some Your head gear we‘ll supply. Just watch your step. don' boogies molest your fine 3111‘ Name Date Place As each guest arrives he a yellow sack with instructiox over his head. first punch: for eyes, nose and mouth. and any facial expression he ma. with charcoal or black supplied for the purpo». The success of your party w 1y depend on your enthusias inality and your ability to kc. thing going every minute. H< this do for your invitation! piece of yellow paper men t long and four inches wide and inch write one 01 the line: begin at the bottom and f paper up inch by inch. Fa: last turn down with a spooky sticker, slip the imitation little envelope. put another s: the upper left-hand corner. a : the right. address and mail there is no doubt this sort ()1 tion will mean great aunt-1p: the part of your guests. Invitation: NOW What on earth do you 5’ Is in this little folder? Just keep right on and 3-0 out Ere you're a minute 0mm. A few more turns and 11m} Come in 8: Chat Av 4mm Ra. STOR BOX Talcum Puu‘ll Box Carr‘s Stoma Bottle {ikers Mill; Box A. S. A. Tabl Box Grippe Pills Buy one roll 01’ w: and we will give 3'1 for 1c. There is 11‘ At Hom Thursdav. October ii PHONE 21 School Y0 u 10 chm ocd Box Face Rogers SI Hand Bag CHINA Th1

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