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Lmg water: poses- further particulars imc receptlon age control. ivit Y ieaf"? come to the Ly ex ening at seven mance of the 0_ ,en produced, pany making percent more .inet. rham. Ontario hear the 01' cc. MONDAY 1.17.4pd. l7, John McGirr Heads Fall Fair Board Field Crop Competition This Year Will be in Fall Wheat Instead of Oats, Providing a Snflicient Number of enthusiasm and a good afternoon’s present at the annual meeting of the South Grey Agricultural Society held was the decision to have field competi- tions in fall wheat instead of oats. There was no object in this other than as oats had been the prevailing grain for a good many years it was thought a change to wheat might create more‘ interest. Wheat was not hard to grow in this section. The meeting left no’ loophole whereby the field competition might fall down. though, as it was stipulated that the competition would be held in wheat only if a sufficient number of entrants could be obtained; otherwise the competition would revert fairly successful year, as compared with others. It had been able to pay off some $300 of the mortgage against their property and still had a fair bal- to cats. ance in the bank with which to go ahead this year. The holding of the County School Fair in Durham had been a contributing factor to the suc- cess of the society last year, as both town and country had worked in uni- son that it might be a succeSS, and from all that could be heard, Durham anticipated. During the meeting it was said that there were some complaints about the charging of admission to some of the winners in the township fairs from schools which had not taken first place in these competitions, but these complaints were’made because of misunderstanding by those who made them. The only “free" entrants into the grounds on School Fair day were those children who were in the win- U..vvv vâ€"â€"â€"â€" .f . there was any fault to be found it must be placed on the general man- agment of these fairs rather than on any one local board. When the school fair matter was under discussion here last summer it was distinctly understood that only school children in the parade were admitted free. and in order to get into __.‘ LL this parade they had to marcn With their various schools, first prize Win- ners in their respective townships. Invite Fair Here This Year The holding of a County School fair is a big proposition. and one that a good many communities might not hold successfunY- mg when it was 1928 Fair was to The place was U big event had t2 no more of 'th15 put the thing 0‘ “U.- u.- ments of this nature again made in dealing with the school fairs. The size of the town is not everything. More to the point. is how the town and the surrounding community in- tends to work it. We have it on more than our own that the 1928 exhibition cess, and more “A ULAV v-.___-' surprised everyone. including them- selves. With their past record behind them, it was felt right and prOper that the Agricultural Society, exhibition. Last year we what we would try and do. - .O L‘â€" A A society will not be disappointed If they do not secure the attraction, but they want it known that, after one year’s experience they are willing and anx- nmviflina no Friday afternoon, but what they should make o‘oer “big”, or, taken place there 3 held in Durham. 'a bid for it, and they at lght not the feel- as they the meeting for the honor, but frankly big chair. As Mr. 'Park had previous- ly said that he was not a candidate as he had insufiicient time to devote to it, there was nothing left but elect another man to the position. Following are the other officials elected and appointed: i First Vice-President, A. Park; 2nd Nice-President, J. W. McKechnie. Picken. Bell. D. Braithwaite. Lady Directorsâ€"Mrs. Wolfe, Mrs. Mcnraith, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Tobin. Auditorsâ€"H. McKechniek P. Ram- 'The delegate to the annual meeting of the Ontario Fairs Association in Toronto on February 7 and 8 was in this position for the past two or three years, rose and tendered his re- signation. There was considerable proven himself a good official. The, net result was that, so far, Mr. Mather . still holds the position, though it is altogether likely that he may insist on a successor being appointed. Held Directors’ Meeting The new Directors met immediately after the general meeting, when prac- tically only routine business was gone through. The following committees Bentinckâ€"A. Grierson and A. Herd. Egremontâ€"R. Ramage and W. Eagle. Glenelgâ€"T. Bell and D. Robinson. Normanbyâ€"W. G. Blyth and James _ Prize Listâ€"J. McGirr, A. Park, Ritchie, J. Mather and the Lady Dir- ectors. Printingâ€"W. Blyth. Dr. Wolfe, J. W. McKechnie. J. Mather. Concertâ€"J. McGirr, J. Mather, A. Bell. W. Bogle. Attractionsâ€"A. Bell, T. Bell, W. Eagle. Grounds Committeeâ€" The whole ”V“- Judging from the meeting. more at- tention is to be paid to the securing of attractions this year than formerly, though the meeting did not favor the turning of the fair into a midway to the exclusion of the agricultural end. It was pointed out that many Fall 'va r-â€"â€"â€"â€"_ Fairs that had catered almost exclu-’ sively to attractions were going down. These attractions were largely of the same nature each year and soon lost their appeal. One instance was refer- red to in which a nearby local fair board which had catered largely to the amusement end had, after last year’s show. met for the purpose of deciding whether or not to go ahead with the fair or drop out of it altogether. ere appointed. Financialâ€"J. McGirr, J. Mather, T. officers 0? Grey Lodge No. 169, I. o. o. R. took place in their lodge room last Monday night, the ceremony being In charge of Bro. John Ritchie, PD.D.G. bAwW-, c.-. ~__ Con., W. Seirifi Chap., 0. Lauder; R. 3.8., J. McCaslin; L. s. s., E. Schenk; present were zrge Crowd of Brethren in Attenu- ance at Interesting Semi-Annual '. Petty, Dr. Wolfe, A. (Sash) L'odge NO- 150 and McLeod of Rosetown, (Sask) i-annual installation of the Kinnee; L. SN.G., R. V. G.. R. Whitmore; L. DURHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. 1929' Night. Hanover Humbled By Local Juniors Durham’s N. H. L. Contenders Handed Second Defeat of Week to Old-Time Rivals in Game That Was Spectacu- lar in Spots.â€"Sc6re was 5 to 2.-Won at Walkerton, Too.â€"Markdale 0.3. A. Team Here Next MondaY. For the second time in the same,i week the Durham Junior N. H. L. team defeated the fast little sextette from .Hanover when they met in the return game on local ice last Thurs- day night. The final score was 5 to 2. Hanover has a smart little team. but they do not seem to know the game well enough to win from the more experienced Durhamites, did the most of their shooting from outside the blue line, and when they did get in- side were apparently at sea and threw the puck -away. The final score was 5 to 2, and this is just about the standing of the teams ‘ on the night’s play. The Hanoverians played good hockey in spots, especially around their own blue line and in centre ice, and on three or four occas- ions had the locals bottled up, but once they commenced boring in on the Durham defence they seemed to take stage fright and were either 'skated into the corner or shot wild. Hanover had decidedly the best of the play in the first period and for a time it was hard to understand how the locals had defeated them so hand- ily 4 to 2 in Hanover the Tuesday ev- ening previous. The ice was sticky, and even with Hanover serving two penalties for tripping the Durhams could not score. ‘ Towards the close of the period Ken Wilson broke loose from his 'po- sition on the defense, carried the puck down past the Hanover blue line, passed to McIlraith, who flipped the first goal of the period past Maycocx. The second period was difierent. Possibly the locals had talked it over during the rest period, but anyway they woke up and pressed the Hanover- ians back on their own goal. Churcott got in close on one occasion, but the Hanover defence forced him to shoot but the Hanoverians were too wily and phurcott had no one to pass the rub- ber to. Shortly after Dean broke through, passed to Churcott and Dur- ham notched its second goal. In the centre ice the game was fairly even. but the Hanover forward line after getting the puck persisted in shooting from outside the blue line, only to have the puck turned aside by Lavelle or rushed back into Han- over territory by the Durham team. Durham got its third goal of the game and the second of this period when Churcott and McGirr carried through the former passing over to his teamâ€" mate, Who scored. Winds mons, bottled the locals two or three times. and with the proper generalship should have scored but didn’t. Possib- ly the locals considered themselves far enough in front to ease up a bit, or perhaps it was their almost conâ€" tinuous 60 minutes of hockey. only Hanover(2)â€"Goa1. WALKERTON COUNCIL SHOWS ITS HAND At the inaugural council meeting held Monday night of last week a res- olution was introduced by councillors Alex. George and W. R. Schenlg, two of the candidates elected on the hydro slate, asking the Walkerton Electric Light and Power “to submit thelr best rates at which they would enter into contract with the town of Walkerton for supplying of electrical energy and also to have the Hydro Electric fiower Commission prepare and present their estimates and both the Walkerton El- 'ectric Light and Power Co. and the Hydro Electric Power Commission give estimate rates, firstly of mutual rates, secondly the estimated rates at the end oi rive: ten, fifteen and twenty years. Sealed tenders to be delivered to the. Walkerton Town Council.” On a division of the council the vote resulted against the motion when Geo. McKay, J. Johnson, Campbell Grant, John Clancy and Wm. Winters Councillors A. George and W. R. Schenk, supported it. The introduction at the inaugural! meeting of the new board of the mo- tion was rather unexpected as those. elected on the hydro slate were ex- pected to defer this move until the February meeting. Mr. O. E. Klein, counsel for Dan Horne and Hopkins in the action now pending addressed the council in a concilatory tone on the hydro and the action pending. etused to Call for Tender: for Electrical Energy From Private and Hydro Interests. Durham Home Visited Shortly After Midnight Hour and Constable Allen Watched Premises Without Result. -- No Clues As to Identity of Prowler. LOCAL“PEEPING TOM” WAS OUT LAST WEEK There was mild excitement in town' Friday morning when it become known that earlier in the morning, in the! neighborhood of 1 o’clock, it had been( found necessary to send in a call for Chief Allen to investigate the sur- roundings of a local residence in an effort to find out the identity of a' midnight prowler who was hanging around one of the residences in the town. When the Chief arrived, how- ever, the bird had flown, and unless he turns up somewhere else it is not _likely his identity will ever be estab- llished. an identity, was occupied by two wo-! men. They had retired shortly after midnight, but before gaining sleep they imagined they heard someone prowling about the grounds. As the Chief has no telephone, Mayor Mur- Idock was communicated with and got in touch with him, and he spent the remainder of the night on the watch but was unable to get track or trace. The house in question, and it is not necessary to say anything further as An examination of the grounds 1 showed beyond doubt that the alarm had not been a false one, as there were footprints around the house, while in front of one of the lower windows where he had stood for some time the snow was quite well packed. Locally, the affair is not being taken very seriously, even by the two town ladies who were badly scared at the McDonald (goal), Murdock Schutz. ~'â€"_w_ Juniors Beat Walkerton \ The Junior team added another victory to its string, when it annexed its third straight game by beating the day evening 2 to O. The game is re- ported as having been a good one, and A n no I-.- -1 LL- goal these were either gobbled up and turned aside by Lavelle in goal or Itisexpectedthatthecomingotthe Markdale team next Monday will draw and defeated mum the other memberofthisgrouthOOatFlah- ertonlastMonday. Thisisthemcond WHOâ€"LE FAMILY WAS ILL A letter received at this oflioe from Mrs. W. H. Bean, of Fordwich, con- tained the information that Mrs. Bean ‘ BE MONDAY Shipping Association Met Here Saturday Considerable Increase Library with the president, R. A! Lawson, presiding. After a few brieix remarks he called for the Secretary’s and Auditors’ reports. Both were very satisfactory. Over $66,000 business had been transacted, showing considerable increase over 1927. The attendance at the meeting being for comment and after some discus- sion it was thought the constitution needed amending to include a larger representative membership. This mat- ter was referred back to the clubs for endorsation. ’ The meeting was somewhat sadden- ed by the sudden death of Mr. John Y. Moffat, the efficient weighmaster, who has been the life of the station yard on shipping days and at meetings of the association. A resolution of sym- pathy was heartily supported, to be forwarded to the family. John Mc- quent Meeting Arranged for operative Egg Grading Station. Girr, president-elect of the Agricultural' Society, ,mentioned how shipping as- sociations in other places helped the Fall Fair by support and donation.i This was referred to the new execu- tive. The officers elected for 1929 were: R. A. Lawson, Pres; Herb Edge, Vice-Pres; Wilbert Blyth, Secy.- Treas.; T. Bell and John McGirr, Auditors. Egg Producers’ Meeting Some forty men and women inter- ested in the marketing of eggs, met at the home of Robt. Lawson on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Joseph Longchallen of the U. F. 0. Co-operative Co. Produce Dept.; spoke on the advantages of organized communities for egg collect- ing and sales, recommending an egg grading station for Durham, giving experiences of other stations which were going strong. Mr. T. A. Benson, Federal Agricul- tural representative for Ontario, was also present and gave a fine talk on quality , marketing. He said that con- sumption had doubled since the grad- ing system had been inaugurated. While. he believed in using everyone fairly he had much faith in the co-op- erative method of marketing all farm‘ Wilton, Varney; Mrs. Fred Torry, Al- lan Park; Mrs. Thos. Tumbull, Rocky; er. N. Melosh, Edge Hill; Harold Mc- Kechnie, Durham, as a committee to arrange to open a station and com- mence as soon as arrangements could be made. WEATHER PREVENTED BETTER ATTENDANCE Women’s Institute Concert Attended Despite Rain Good Program Provided. V“ Ant-w â€"â€" _ ever those who _did brave the elements pertainly got their money’s worth as the entertainment put on by Miss lHildreth Lennox, A. T. C. M., of Barrie l was an excellent one. “well Her rendition of Schubert’s “Fantastic Impromptu” and “The Music Box” by Lido were excellent. _ LLA The concert sponsored by the W0- men’s Institute struck a bad night last Thursday, as the rain, which had been of the niore or less variety all day. settled down to a steady pour about the time most people were putting on their hats in readiness to attend. How- As mentioned above, owing to the weather, the crowd was not all it might have been, however, the hall was half-filled, and while the concert could hardly be called a financial success, we believe the ladies are slightly ahead on their venture. Durham U. F.O. Shipping As- $2.00 a Year in Canada; $2.50 in U. S. Night.â€" Meeting Apparently Favored Paving Good Attendance of Ratepayers Friday It is quite possible that Durham’s malnstreetwlllbepavedthisoomlng summer. That is about all that could be taken out of the meeting in the "Town Hall on Friday night when E. M. Proctor, engineer of the firm of who I street, afterwards answered a multitude of questions from the audience. From Friday’s meeting. we would deduce that all the crowd was after was information. There were no opinions expressed that would indicate any antagonism and when one rate- payer remarked that Durham would either have to pave or something or “get off the map” there was an out- break of applause. Opposing forces for the improvement of our front street were certainly not present at last week’s meeting. There was a good attendance. too. everything considered. Durham is not noted as a town where the populace falls all over each other in its eager- ness to attend gatherings of this kind, and when an all-day rain turned into a downpour after nightfall, spon- sors of the gathering did not look for ' a very heavy attendance. It was grat- "ifying, however, that the hall was ' perhaps half-filled, the majority of whom were ratepayers and the' boys who would have to put up the money ' were the paving gone ahead with. t Gave Good Attention 7 Mayor Murdock was in the chair and 5 opened the meeting about 8.15. He ,' did not take up very much time aside from introducing the speaker. E. M. Proctor, who was here as the repre- sentative of the engineering firm. Mr. Proctor read the letter sent by his firm to the Town Council, and lwhich was gone over by Mayor Mur- W W I ' .4 Addressed Gathering In the Town Streets. dock at the nomination. The letter contained all the information neces- sary and each clause was pretty explained and cleared up by The question hour was most inter- esting, when anyone in the audience was requested to ask the speaker any- thing that was not quite clear to him and he would answer it. if possible. Speaking to the question of the cost of the paving, which had been estim- ated at a total of $70,000, one rate- payer asked if the actual cost would exceed the estimates. This, he claim- ed. was a common occurrence, and if it were to be the case in the present instance then the ratepayers should know. tion said that his firm’ 5 estimates had been worked out from actual work done in the town of Campbellford. He thought they were sufiiciently high and said that he had little doubt he could go to Toronto and return with a signed contract at his firm’s figures. Paving was a matter of so much a yard. His firm knew the number of yards it would take, how much the sewer would cost, the ditches, should- ers. and other requirements, and after this was ascerta boy could figure out could not give any “VJ vv uâ€"wâ€" “U --- could not give: any guarantee, but was confident the work could be easily done within the figure named Another ratepayer asked now me town was to be protected against inferior workmanship. To this quesâ€" tion -the speaker answered that his Iâ€"{Efiwould not likely be here perman- ently himself, but if ‘the work were annp ahead With. one Of his Stag Of (cénimued on page 5-) the engineers on ascertained any SChOOl'