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PL’RHAM n or Beast couple of weeks. ~ .1 T. Priest and 1.." town from Amp-I. " have taken up , - he Baptist m - vi" 341'. mm m ‘ 1; Durham and 0“ radar and his m ry much delighted m We welcome Mr. “I (1 family to the town. {buns hine trainer Pail 13., 6 for ”c. ms. Sets. etc. and Brownies {tom $1.25 5 always in stock. g and Printing. 00th Paste 50c. tooth brain. ICES 'airy Pail Wt he imitated. 'te stock of the )t ”Ne7mznm m u! cch‘” induced. (‘hu ms rtchers s imitatiofié and R EMEMBERâ€" I Liver Oil. : gallon. fl.“ bage Pails 1-HW hei HE 3016 Pâ€"ui 6n overoldl'o‘ Easy to lay. Good End the Miami. Skoot GALVANIZED Store 'riest and 1.. fl - i VOL. 63.â€"No. 3234. Council Cm Ill-ale. W Town‘s Liability I- Can t! Accident. 4‘9"! 01"“ '0"!!! Monday day evenmg but little balms outside the routine vsflcty w W 0‘. TheCom’totBevUonmetu'UOJne Council meeting following, an n that it was all over by 10 o’clock. There were nine ”More the. CourtofRevision. J.W.lvenaon9 appealedsgflnsttheirmtnnd while they hsve slwsys W it as too high, this year, withtheirdsm end of the year, they thought they were deserving of considerntion. The assessment was reduced W in :11. $250 on business tux sud $250 on their property. George Ryan sppenled to the Council for a reduction in assessment owing to quite a large smount of his property having been out swsy by the spring state his case the mi was sus- William Smlth of George Street com- plained that his ho , purchased for 31,000 less than no er property in assessor’s books at 8200 higher in the assessment. He did not think this was right and appealed for a reduc- tion. The assessment was sustained. Miss Sparling of Bruce street appeal- ed against her assessment being raised this year. The Assessor explained that this was an error on his part. _l_-Ie Dr. J. L. Smith was entered on the roll as owner of the former A. J. Webb property on Bruce street. and Rev. J. iPriest. with Mrs. Priest. who came to the Baptist parsonage this week, had their names placed on the roll. Held Regular Session manna..." Hm nmrrt of Revision the had not raised. her assessment, the error having crept in when making out the notice. Assessment reduced $200. Smith Bros. appealed against their a resessment on the grounds that they had been out of business for ‘prsctgeah m’I‘nomas Young was assessed for a dog that. he did not at present own. The dog was dead and of no further use. Appeal allowed. sever: montlu: on account. of their fire last September. They were also assessed for gasoline pumps on the street. These were now on their own} preperty. Their assessment was re- duced $250. but it was made plain that it was to be for this year only. Bert Stoneouse, a member of the Court of Revision, appealed against his assessment. He cited cases in the town Following the Court of Revision the Council sat immediately and. while quite a lot of business was done there was none of it of very much iniport- ance. the Council sitting for little more ity of taking out accident insurance. This was a most necessary protection today. more so than at any other per- iod. owing to the increased traflic. Clue‘lb "I 655w. as.” received. The ad ent '6: the automo- bile had them well educated along this line. and they knew in case of ac- cident that they could collect damngesn generally went with the plaintiff in a case of damage action. Moat mun- Eerr 'cvén't protection would coat. uau a year. The Council were unanimous in their approval of this class of insur- A letter from J fem. engineers in stated may mere was no ”A. I.“ and. paving programme now in progress. . _ The assessment "IV ' 'â€" The {audit Y58 _m Town, reported that he had interview- ed several of the property owners and all were agreed that now was the time to have the sewers installed. rather. . LL- than at some fun pavement had been Several new names had been sauce. to the petition from residents along Lambton and Bruce streets to have pavement laid in front of their proper- _--LL --. 131...!" #ha* year. This looks like the work W111 oe commenced this summer. The agree- ment was to be signed by the Clerk returned to the County Clerk and submitted to the Provincial Wants Dcpntation Reeve Bell asked for a deputation of ’road running through Proton and Eg- o the Provincial Highway isouth of here. This road took a turn “southerly in Egremont for two and a half miles and came out through Holstein. It was felt all along that should have been continued straight through. coming out on ' Highway this side of Orchard. It was claimed that this was the natural route of the road. as this was the only way CANADIAN CHARGE D’AFFAIRB ' Similar: Keenleyside of Van- couver, who has been appointed by the Dominion Government as Oom- Japan. deen one day last weex ur. v. u. MacGiilivray picked u a curiosity in the shape of a. stone 0 some kind that resembled almost perfectly a. human arm. The stone was surrounded orig- mall with a piece of canvas, part of whic was still in a. good state of pre- servation. The curio reminded one or a mummy and it is hard to say what u ..,.. mm. It was thought it A I... wnue qugeEPE An elderly_?¢>_1k a County woman paid A..- Agâ€"“flf +A hnve May Pave Lqmbfqn -vv Uâ€"v this éfimmer. The agree- 'to be signed by the Clerk returned to the Count): wers installed rathel future date after the ring around the river summer home at Aber- last week Dy. C. G. :4... 3., hid been added. DURHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929. were 0116 "v ~'â€"â€"'â€"â€"â€"â€"_ Royden Burnett, who recently com- pleted his fifth year in medicine, holds the presidency of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity, Miss Eula Burnett is a member of Pi Sigma Sorority. and Harold Mountain, who completed his fourth year in medicine, looked quite at home in the photo of the rugby team. Harold is further outstanding because he holds a very high position academi- cally in his class. It is pleasing to us to learn that Durham’s representatives at the University of Western Ontario V '"-"--â€"v' are "Bringing credit. to themselves and to their home town, GREY DEANERY MEETS HERE ON TUESDAY ---v wâ€"â€"__-_ Grey and of the Deanery Woman’s Auxiliary is to be held in Trinity Church, Durham, next Tuesday, when over 200 delegates from the various parishes in the deanery are expected to , 4--.. ‘u'- n-IA‘AAmA *n PWWHVV --- -..-- ._-_-___ .. - be in town. Durham’s welcome toi this meeting will not be any less than on former occasions, though the street work going on will not make for the convenience of those present and the detours made necessary to reach Trin- ity church will doubtless prove more or less of a nuisance. However, these are things that cannot be helped and while our Council cannot offer the delegates the “freedom of the town” on behalf of the citizens we extend them a most hearty welcome. with better con- ditions prevailing on the occasion of their next gathering here. . The deanery meeting opens at 10.30 with holy communion, the sermon be- ing preached by Rev. Professor Isher- ‘- L- L- A ”Mf‘“fl use ysvwvxovâ€" â€"., _-- . _ ood, M. A. There is to be a meeting of the clergy at 1.30 pm., of the laity at the same hour, and a general meet- ing of the clergy and delegates at 2 o’clock which will be addressed by Rev. Canon Vernon, B.A., the General Sec- retary oi the Council for Social Ser- V two A meeting of the clergy an d laity of at which discussions on the various schemes or the church take place. The Woman’s Auxiliary The annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary commences also at 10.30. The 1.30 meeting will hear the minuh of the last meeting read by Mrs. W. Mogridge of Shelburne, and an ad- dress by the deanery president, Mrs. E. C. Mandley, also of Shelburne. Reports of the various branches will be heard and the delegate to the dio- cesan annual meeting, Mrs. G. Beaton oi Thornbury, $111 also give her re- port. There w be a general businrss session, the election of officers. and a discussion of the work planned for the coming year. Both Deanery and Woman’s Auxil- iary meetings promise interesting dis- cussion and it is expected that the delegates will have a busy day to get through with all ihe work on the pro- The anual meeting of the Deepen of â€"._â€".__ first advertisement, calculated to renew public interest in this vital pro- blem. It is stated by those who have stud- possibl . After careful study members of the Committee have concluded that} the vast majority of accidents can be (“va- ‘ AGAIN UNDER WAY mu 243 District: to Receive Benefit of Accumulated Surplusesa- Only 30 Municipalities Where No Reduction Hydro Announces ' Power Rate Cut made in 243 municipalities and in 45‘ others rebates will be made on the cus-‘ tomers’ bills, according to a statement issued Saturday by C. A. Magrath, chairman. of the provincial hydro com- mission. There were only 30 odd mun- icipalities where no reduction could be recommended. Mr. Magrath said. A few of the larger cities and towns to receive reductions and rebates were: Chatham, Gait, Guelph, London. Niagr ta Falls, Kingston, Peterboro, St. Thomas, Sarnia, Stratford, Welland, Windsor, Woodstock, Barrie, Brock- â€"-â€""' vine, cdmiiévireod, Dundas, Ford City, Lindsay, Mimico, Sandwich. Smiths Falls, Walkerville and Waterloo. The official statement follows: “The Hydro-Electric Power commis- sion at its regular meeting on May 29th approved of the recommendation as submitted covering the annual analysis. of cost of supply service to the munici- palities composing the commission. Where in the past reduction in rates and rebates to customers have been comparatively few, this year the total number of municipalities receiving a reduction in rates on either one class of service or the other will total 243, and 45 municipalities will receive re- bates, leaving only some 30 odd munici- palities where no reduction could be recommended. “These rebates have been authorized; in cases of municipalities where accu-1 mulated surpluses have reached comâ€" paratively large amounts and where. in the conunission’s opinion. it is not considered advisable at the present time to reduce further the lighting rates. .Rebates based on from ten to 25 per cent. of 1928 revenues which will amount to from one to four months’ customers bills will go to all consumers. The municipalities benefltted, accord- ing to systems, are as follows: , 3. ALI ._ ‘- ‘A-nnfi, “5° vv -V w ' -___. “Niagara: Total reduction in domes- tic, 74; total reduction in commercial, 160: and in power 107 ; with a total number of 21 municipalities where re- bates would be made. “Georgian Bay: Total reduction in domestic, 18; total reduction in com- mercial, 14; and in power, 25; with 17 municipalities to be rebated. “Central Ontario system: Total reg duction in domestic, 6; total reduction, in commercial, 13 and in power, 6; with rebates to 3 municipalities. “Thunder Bay system: There were the following reductions: domestic, 1; .commercial. 1; and power, 1. ’ “St. Lawrence system: There were 2 reductions in domestic; 12 in commer- cial and 13 reductions in power; with 3 municipalities to receive rebates. “Rideau system: There were 5 re- ductions in domestic; 5 in commercial and 5 in power, with one rebate. “Ottawa system: This system has the least of all, there being 1 commer- cial reduction and 1 power reduction.” Minister of Highways. and Chair- man of the Executive of the High- way Safety Committee. who h“ again launched an extensive cam- paign looking to accident preven- tion on Ontario highways in Power rate reductions have_ EXCAVATING STARTED 0N GARAFRAXA For the past three or tour ween". work has. been oing on from the foot the completion of this the big «tiger of the Standard Pavings Limited now in town and commenced work yester- day morning. ,The machine was _ . .. A _-_ -1 “gnu-Innm ‘1‘“ and Win theymeylookioronedditiontobe to their chores srount‘lggmtge 6 The camp proper opened o'clock an on Thursday. At 6.30 they ved instructions in how to t settled in their tents and st 8 .m. eld an auditorium meeting and ist- ened to a lecture on forestry and the p“ of the camp, given by A. H. cgmn. The camp routine and rules were explained by A. E. Pstton. At 9.30 taps was sounded and “lights outj" saw the boys settled for tho folloWed by supper at 6 and 6.30 to 8 o’clock was observed as “spare time" period. The Council Fire at 8 o'clock was a most interesting period when various stunts, a 5 -song and other sports took place. t was at the sing-song that the local four boys gave their famous quartette and were forced to a pear again at the Public Council ' gatondsaturday. ch (.11 ur ay's programme was mu 6 same as on the previous day. On Sun- day reveille was sounded at 7.30 with breakfast at 8 o'clock. Camgminspec- tion took place at 8.30 and _ p_ection_ tion took lace at 8.30 and fnspec tton at 8..45 to owed by the flag break and morning pyra er. From 9 o 'clock to 1030 the pchurch service was attended by the full camp. The comp oom- menceg! to break up around the noon â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"v v hour, lunch was1 served at 12.30 and commencing atl o 'clock the cleaning up of the ground and the anal pack- ing took place, the camp being closed at 2 o 'clock with the ilnpal lowering of tho . Th ys report a wonderful time and are only sorry that the activities did not continue over a longer period. vvâ€"cvm _. __ _- , â€"' ' flay-"vitae motel-6d 'bver to Anéus by Mr. Boydep Burpgtt 9}; _‘1fpursduy while _--- -L--- ‘D. 33 ' t'fié' ERRâ€"BE 8606mm " tei Mc- Connell motored over and brought them to Durham SIR JOHN M. GIBSON ' DEAD AT HAMILTON Distinguished 801M. gnished soldier, former Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario and a prominent figure in the financial world, died at his home at Hamilton on Monday ev- ening at the age of 87 years. A native of Haldimand County, Ont., Sir John served with the 13th Reci- ment of Hamilton until he retired as "WJéAin‘M * - as a shock. He had not been in his usual health for several weeks but his condition appeared to improve during the past few deys. Shortly after luncheon Monday he suffered a fainting spell. His physicist: was called but Sir John sank without township Hamill's. The contracts let yesterdny were for the bridge south of Comp- hell's Owners, a 65-foot steel with con- crete abutmeng, app the one at John .A_ AA--‘Aâ€" A mâ€" f6?" tfié Et'ee'qugE Governor of Oahu-to. Sir John Morrison Glbspt}. “v 'vv ' “v... .____ _ _ “TOWN by the m break end on June 20 and 21. providing a suitiâ€" prayer. From 9 o'clock to cieht number of eppiicetions are re- : church service was attended ceived. All appiiutions must be in m“ “m“ Th" “mp “n" the mas at Mr. Cooper by the 12th gnu-3:: :ePrvfdouftd 1?;0 end inst and. as in the case of the men. it zinc at 1 o'clock the cleaning sufficient applications are received 3 no ground and the flpfll peck: deposit of eiwili be required. 01 which _._1 II I. A AnnA-fi BRIDGE CONTRACT 3' Bowlinl Club 0999' Aw” In His 87“! $2.000YenrinCnndn;$2.50inU.B. at ranged and if sufficient numbers apply a deposit of 85. which pays for in the bus. torethezsthinst. Itisrequestedthat no money be sent until called. for but that applications should be sent in at once. While the tour is ostensibly a farm- ers' outing and they will be given the E. 8' 2 E 8 9,- rangements can be made. While numerous letters have been sent to farmers throughout the whole county of Grey it is found to be im- possible to write all and everyone de- Lsirous of taking the trip is requested in: get in touch with Mr. Cooper. They are assured a hearty welcome and a good trip. MclNTYRE APIARY HAS CHANGED OWNERS 'l‘hetoulooototthetoqrhtpbefil! ' â€" Wâ€"__ nounoement of th gradation exer- cises at the Western Hosptul, Toronto. and anon: those who received their GRADUATE!) are invited and MW Lâ€"mr V-" unite to get