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Thnnday. Set“... I, ‘ 1. L. C. M. 8. AW, outside the Banfl 8’“ 1st prior to settinf on Rh 3 pack train to out. 1?» the peak. Iarrow ,e-n Mu) were repairing . m z m:- harmless patm Om. “sum :11 the work .m .|..".t'rib'¢’.l'l'()“' along upside lieves hls ' of tone * you. ’SITORS? You must know hat it brings in. Our help you. Ask the OI éwan Rivers. Lay ow ”3 Edward Pm «19. all set for the an“: Ap. the_e_19r_(le!t) u“ THE ROYAL .ed A DIO. Him wins: the exhibi- tirawn from the a $10.00 coupon. perhapsâ€"your son’s work you have put nhnnograph and 0“ land. Manager Building 8: CO’Y adio 11‘ 1' 1121'." replied the ”thug mer "esterday m they :r “-Kmerican Boy. said a MW“ 3:911 should turn m findâ€"d.â€" the balan'ce to be paid equally by the Railway Company and the De- partment of Public Highways. I The Finance Committee passed ac- counts totalling approximately $450. About 80 delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada were in attendance recently when the American Astronomical Society opened a three- day convention at the Dominion 0b- Will Build Wit-Wag An order from the Railway Board was placed before the Council confirm- ing the finding of the Commission and the erection of the wig-wag signal at. the Garafraxa street crossing is ordered to be completed inside of 90 days. The expense of erection, upkeep and main- tenance of this signal is to be borne. 40 per cent by the Grade Crossing A: the regular monthly meow a the Town Council on Tuesday night the c-zttti'l'act for the paving of 1.3mm ~tl't’t‘f. With the exception 01 "13‘ W- rm; from Garairaxa street to the mudqe. was awarded to the W Pan-mg Company and work commenced '.'t-~t_el'day morning digging out, the roadway near the C. N. R. station, From the bridge to Bruce street corner 11w pavement is to be 28 feet wide with curb and gutter, and 30 feet with >ltmllder and open ditches from Bruce street to the railway tracks. Objection bv the ratepayers adjacent to the «reel held up the letting 01 the con- tract for the work from the main corner to the bridge. The ratepayers do not want to Sign for more than 34) feet. but it is the general Opinion around town that this is too narrow ‘19 it will not provide for adequate parking space. A width of 34 feet is considered at any length other than to listen to the arguments pro and con out forth by some of the ratepayers in- terested. Some there are who maintain that 20 feet is sufficient, while others want a 24-foot width with curb and gutter. Another hitch is the instal- lation of a storm sewer to take away the surface water. This is a real nec- essitv. but there seems to have been sOIllC‘ misunderstanding. The rate- payers on Bruce street have stated that their understanding of the scheme was that Lambton street was to be drained u ith flush sewers and that the resid- outs of Bruce street were being re- Qiiit'ed to build a storm sewer to take away the water of both Lambton and Bruce street and pay for draining it westward to the natural watershed at College street. Inquiry amongst mem- bers of the Council by The Chronicle brings out the information that the Bruce street residents are required only to drain their own street and that the moving of the water from the foot of Bruce is to be a town improvement and paid for out of the general taxi rate of the town. A subsequent con- versation with residents of Bruce street shows that there would be very little exception taken to this scheme and that had this part of the programme been known little time would have been lost in getting down to business and se- curing the necessary signers. ASTRONOMERS MEET servatory. \‘V- wwwâ€" first papers read was that of Dr. Lud- wig Silberstein. whose deductions in the course of a treatice on new deter- minations of the curvature radius of space led him to estimate the distance of the earth from the sun at more than 98,000,000 miles. The chair was taken by E. W. Brown of Yale University. President, who briefly welcomed the delegates. and recalled that it was just 18 years since the society had last met in the Capital of Canada. VOL. 63.â€"NO. 3246. Contract Let For ' Paving lamblon St. standard Paving Cm In Already Commenced Work Nat C. N. 3, nationâ€"Bruce Street and Part of Lambton Street Conflicts Not Yet Accepted. Miles From Earth. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE IN ANNUAL SESSIONS .g‘W' I. ' a run of 132 miles of good gravel roads. We stopped at a tourist camp which cost us 75c. Leaving Brace- bridge at 6 o’clock Tuesday morning. we travelled through a very pretty tourist country covered with lakes and rivers. We arrived in North Bay at 2 o’clock, a very pretty town, but did not stay. We travelled through some of the wildest country you could look at. Anyone wanting thrills driving a car should take this route passing through Sturgeon Falls. Arriving at Sudbury at 7.30 Tuesday evening (85 miles west of North Bay) we stayed in a tourist camp over night, leaving at 7.30 Wednesday morning. We arrived in the Canadian 800 at 6.30 that same evening in a fine rain and stayed at a hotel over night as it was too wet to set up camp. Here we parted company with Mr. Graham as he stops over on a visit with his son Donald. Leaving Durham on August 12 at 2 o’clock in company with Alfred Watson. Thomas Atchison, John Graham and myself in a 1928 Pontiac coach, we tra- velled east to Barrie. arriving at Bracebrnge ‘at 8 o’clock that evening. Leaving the 800 at 8.15 Thursday morning, we crossed the St. Mary’s River on the ferry and travelled west- ward to a pretty little town, Newberry. in Northern Michigan, a distance of 75 miles on first class red clay roads: through burnt-over bush but growing green as far as your eye could see. We arrived at Margueriette, a very pretty place on Lake Superior. stopped at r“ tourist camp and left at 6 o’clock Fri- day morning and drove through to Superior, a distance of 300 miles. As the places were nearly 100 miles apart we did not wish for any car trouble. We stopped at a camp and left in the morning at 5.30; had to pay 25c. toll to cross the river. a long hard climb tr) get out of Duluth and on to Warren. a run of 280 miles. Warren is ‘a Pleasant Motor Trip To Western Canada Lorne Allan Tells Chronicle Readers 0! Interesting Trip from Durham to Saskatchewanâ€"Met Many Former Residents of Vicinity. small town in Northern Minnesota where we stopped Saturday night. We ran into some very good crops of grain. but getting dryer as we came west. We left Warren Sunday morning and ar- rived in Winnipeg at 'one o’clock where my sister Katie, (Mrs. John Gibson) lives. also a brother Jim. Had a fine visit and left Monday _noon by way of -Câ€" â€"vâ€" Portage La Prairie. Very good crops in Southern Manitoba. Arrived at Brandon at 7 o’clock Monday evening. Left Brandon at 6 o’clock Tuesday morning, arrived at Greniell at noon and visited the Morrison and Irwin families. formerly of Egermont. Con- tinned our journey westward to Regina, where we arrived at 6.30 Tuesday Brown Brothers, formerly of Holstein. Sam Watson, brother of Alf.. lives. His wife was Mary Irwin, formerly of Egremont. We stayed here until the next morning, leaving Seaman at 8 o’clock. We had dinner at Watrous, a summer resort 82 miles southeast of Saskatoon, where Billie Whitmore of Emmont runs a hotel and mineral bath. We met Tommy Sproule. brother of Mrs. Roy Lawrence. A company is WINS AGAIN Walter Hagen, British Open Golf Champjox}. who this week won the .7 vv.‘ vv V . VD.“ Greaf Lakes Ope’rixwéolf Chanipion- August 25, 1929. DURHAM. ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 1929. matter of discussion for the past few weeks in the daily press of the country but from the contradictory dispatches it was rather hard to form an opinion. This week Mr. James Burt received a letter from his nephew, Mr. James Barrett of Bagot, Manitoba, which would show that in this section, at least. the crops are considerably below the average. Mr. Barrett’s letter. too, would indicate that he regard himself as better 011' than some of his neigh- bors. 4---- '1 lie Michigan car was the property of Miss Pearl Mende and was being driven by Elmer Goetsch, both of De- troit. The car at the curb was owned and driven by Mr. Albert Livingstone of Dornoch. Mr. Livingstone says he had stopped at the curb anti was pul- ling down toward the McLaughlin gar- age when the Michigan motorist have in sight and crashed into his front wheel. A blown-out tire was his only damage. Mr. Goetsch claimed that he was driving at about 20 miles an hour and that Livingstone pulled out in front of him, giving him no chance to save. He had turned his car toward the centre of the road but when he applied his brakes it overturned and crashed into the pump. Both Mr. Goetsch and Miss Mende were taken out of the wreck by spectators and. were fortunately unhurt. Traflic Officer Hood was got in touch with and the result of the in- vestigation was that both were to blame and the Michigan tourists, whose He threshed l.is wheat some days previously and got from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre. Oats were a comâ€" plete failure, and where he had 2,000 bushels last year, the amount of his 1929 crop is about 800 bushels. There has been no rain in that section for Tuesday morning about 10 o’clock Durham’s new pavement enjoyed its first spill when a Michigan tourist re- turning home from a trip along the Bay hit another car turning out from the curb, turned to the centre of the road. went over on its side when the brakes were applied, and slid into the gas tank in front of George McLaugh- lin’s garage. The gas tank was moved from its moorings. the top glasses knocked off and broken and the con- necting pipes disconnected so that it will be useless as a filling station until repairs are made. The Michigan car had the top mussed up, the fenders bent and other minor scratches but was eer was fully insured. agreed for the damage done the tank. WESTERN CROPS weeks and no prospects. There is a real water scarcity and while be him- self is not so badly of! there are cases where his neighbors have no water even for themselves and have to haul it in from outside. The potato crop is poor, almost a total loss, especially in the earlier order to feed his threshers. Mr. Burt says that if his nephew is in poor luck regarding his crop yield he shudders to think of some of the others, as Mr. Barrett is a good tanner and can get a crop is given anything like an even chance. weeks a able to proceed on its way after the investigation by Traffic Oflicer Hood was completed. Letter From Manitoba. Tells of Condi- tions Among Farmers in That Sennaâ€"Crops Away Below Average. LIST OF ACCIDENTS much! fatal cases numbered 43 for Juli! 35 against 40 in Julx,_1928. against «1 m «my, avao. The total benefits awarded in July amounted to ”16.64938, of which sum $592,615.36 was for compensation to injured workers or their dependents, and $124,033.92 for medical aid. In July of last year the total benefits awarded amounted to $513,000.48. R. B. Morley. general manager of the Industrial Accident Prevention Asso- ciation, speaking of these figures. says thatmanyoithereportstotheCom- mmtion Board relate to minor injur- which, in former years, were con- sidered only as first-aid cases. The records of the Cornpensation Board show that forty-nine per cent of the allowed claims involve payment for Cars In Collision Wrecked Gas Pump My Morning Accident on Din-hm Front Street Was Exciting While It M But No Serious Damage Wu Bonep'l‘go Michigan Motorists Hui Western wheat crop has beep a ARE VERY POOR siiii'ws INCREASE to The late Mrs. Brown was born in Normanby Township 31 years ago and was in her 31st year. She was mar- ried to Mr. Brown twelve years ago by whom she is survived. There was no family. Mrs. Brown had been ailing for the past ten years but about three weeks ago was brought to Durham hos- pital suffering with appendicitis. An operation was the only hope held out for her recovery, but with other ail- ments she was unable to stand the shock of the Operation and passed away eight days after it was perform- ed. Since their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brown had lived on the 14th Concession of Egremont. Word was received here last week by Mrs. William Ritchie, Mill street, of the death at her home at Albion Ridge, Alberta, of her granddaughter, Bernice Davis, ten years old, who passed away on the let ult. from an attack of scarlet fever. With her mother, and sisters Viola and Evelyn, and a brother Surviving, besides her husband, are one brother and five sisters, Albert Kraft, Normanby; Mrs. Eugene Wep- pier, Durham; Mrs. William Manto. Bentlnck; Mrs. William Fritz, Norman- by; Mrs. Albert Lembke. Wiarton and Sadir in Toronto. The late Mrs. Brown was a woman held in the very highest esteem and many of her old friends in Egremont and Normanby were present at the funeral obsequies last Sunday. Edgar, she was taken down with the disease, and while the others recovered. Bernice, who had a weak heart, was not able to withstnd the ravages of the tion and Mrs. Davis was before her marriage Eva Ritchie, daughter of Mrs. W. Ritchie of this town. Mrs. Philip' Brown of Egremont Township, who underwent an operation for appendicitis and call stones in the Durham hospital on August 21. passed away on Thursday last and the funeral was held from the residence of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Weppler. Durham, on Sunday afternoon. The service was in cham of Rev. Mr. Longhalz of Ayton and interment was made in the Lutheran cemetery at him at the hospital, where he had been removed on Sunday and where he appeared quite bright and cheerful. On Tuesday Mrs. McLean was with him and he had conversed quite cheer- fully for a time. but passed away sud- denly without a struggle. The late Mr. McLean was born in Bentinck near Mulock, where he grew to manhood and where he resided until 1895 when he moved to Shallow Lake. He moved to Durham 18 years ago and has since been a resident of this town. He was a carpenter by trade, and was one of the old schoolâ€"efficient and painstaking. and any work undertaken and completed by him was of a high order and much above the average. We doubt if there were any better wood- workers in a wide area than the sub- ject of this sketch. and in health his services were in demand for particular work . Forty-two years 0 he was mar- ried to Miss Jane yd of Sentinel“. who survives with a family of one son and three daughters: Cecil. with the Royal Air Force at Camp Borden; Mrs. Charcls Moore (Margaret), Dur- ham; Mrs. Victor Catton (Jane). Grimsby. and Mrs. (Dr) C. L. Grant Following an illness of only a few days, Mr. Donald (Dan) McLean for the past eighteen years a well-known and esteemed resident of the town. passed away in Durham hospital on Tuesday from an attack of heart trouble. Mr. McLean was 66 years of age and he remarked to a friend that it was the first time in his life that he was forced to take to his bed with illness. Though not feeling well for some months, it was not until last Friday that he was taken bad and ordered to his bed by his physician. His condition was not regarded as ser- ious at first and it was expected he would be around again in the course of two or three weeks, and his daugh- ter, Mrs. Victor Catton of Grimsby, who spent the week-end here, visited DONALD McLEAN BERNICE DAVIS OBITUARY ’.\A“ A â€" Dorothy Marguerite. the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reid. seven years of age, passed away Sunday evening last after only a few days‘ illness. Besides her parents she is sur- vived by three brothers and one sister, who have the sympathy of the com- munity in their loss. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 1 o’clock. the service being taken by Rev. H. S. Fiddes of the Queen Street church. survived by his wife, formerly Miss Nellie Fogarty of Glenelg. and one daughter. Previous to moving to the 800 Mr. and Mrs. Quinn resided for some years at Ottawa. Interment was made Wednesday morning in the R. C. cemetery at Sault Ste. Marie. vioe was held at the Wilson funeral home in Elmira on Sunday evening and at 2 o'clock Sunday morning the funeral oortege lei t Elmira by motor on the long journey of 350 miles for Durham. arriving here a ut 2.30 Tuesday afternoon. The remains were taken to the home of her old friends. After an illness of ten weeks, Mrs. J‘. M. B. Willoughby, a former very highly respected resident of Durham died in the Arnott-Ogden hospital at Elmira. New York. on Sunday last. following an operation for removal of pus from a cavity alongside her right lung. Mrs. Willoughby was taken ill and confined to her bed on the 3rd of July and} on. the 17th of August was taken to the hospital for treatment. An operation was decided on as the only hope and this was performed on the 22nd ult. From the first her condition was re- garded as very serious. and though only slight hope was entertained for her re- covery.there was a chance that with an operation she could recover. "‘ In her weakened condition. however. she was unable to withstand the shock and pas- sed away on Sunday last. A short ser: MRS. J. M. BENTON WILLOUGHBY Mr. and Mrs. John Crutchley on Albert street. where they remained until 1.30 yesterday afternoon when they were taken to the Queen Street United church where the funeral service was oonductd by the Rev. 3. S. Fiddes. During the service favorite hymns of the deceased were sung. Interment was made in the family plot in Durham cemetery. The late Mrs. Willoughby was born at Burntwood, Staaordshlre. England. on the 12th of May, 1861. On May 17. 1883. she was united in marriage to September, 1900, and wus buried 11: Durban cemetery. On October 21, 1914,_s_he wag rung-{ed Interment was in Durham cemetery “V”IV. vv -w- v v‘ v ._ _ , v.- V'vvv'" ___' to Mr. George wnlouéhby and in June 1920 moved to Elyrh. Ohio. so yahto Revolutionize Steel Industry Robert Tumbull. well known Conaâ€" dien manufacturer, of Welland. Ontario. who has invented a new electrical reduction process by which it is expected the vest low grade Canadian iron ore deposits. especially those of Ontario, may be DOROTHY M. REID Benton died on the 1_8t_h 9t $2.003YenrinCunndn;$2.50I-U.l the omen: abetting of the new fiave- ment on autumn street. In a com- munication to the Council Hon. G. S. Preparations are being made for music for both round and square danc- ing and it is altogether likely that a god band will be engaged to furnish music for those who do not dance. At this stage of the game it is impossible to publish the programme. but it is the intention to put on a good one so that the opening ceremony here will be long At their tomb: meeting on Tuesday night the Town Council not Monday oi noxtwook, Boptonxborp, asthodnyior toes are ut work pupa-me a pro- gramme (or the evening’s fun that is to follow. serious condiiion of Mr. Vesste. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Eccles of Ecremont. the lat- ter a sister of the injured man. went to Orillla but save not yet returned. EGREMONT MAN WAS INJURED IN ACCIDENT At a special meeting of the Viliap Council of Shallow Lake yesterday first reading was given a bylaw granting the Walkerton Electric Light and Power Company right to erect poles. string wires and ,transmit electric current on the streets of the village. This is the Flames already obtalned show that the average coatof maintenance of all gazelroadsanntax-lohflflpermllc. lncludea all rentals and uplacoet; ‘t t the country ut 30.000. winch per mile .. for maintenance. VV “50v.- â€" vâ€" 'â€" _ _ along the countâ€"i highway ’trom Hep- wirthmshnllowukmpembtonwm besought fromthefurmenmme the routetophcethepoles inside mean-”an e ' E E: E m “”9999 0‘. ‘ . I Mr. John Vessie of Egremont. a man of about 70 years of ICE. is in the hos- pital at Orillia rather badly injured as the result of a motor car accident that occurred near that town a week ago last Monday. It seems that he was in a head-on collision with a car driven by a girl and as a result the occupants ofbothcarshadtobetakentothe hospital. Mr. Vessie left here only a few days previously on o motoring and fishing trip to Muskoka. F0811“ INTERESTS ENTER GREY COUNTY P'oshny power interests nrst appear- ance in the County of Grey. Up to the present they have confined their ex- tensions to Bruce County. The trans- mission line will be run from the Village of Hepworth. two miles disttnt. where the company is instelling a lighting system. The Shallow Lake euthorities ap- For a. couple of days this week there was a persistent report in circulation that he hid passed away. but as this was not confirmed and nothtng could be found out about it there is a good chance that. like Mark Twain, Mr. Vessie's death was "greatly exaggerat- '"wvâ€"â€"â€" ,_ navy obfigetions would have to incurred by the village. In order 83' avoid having to go to the Grey County Council for pernuosgon to poles John Valle. Neu- lloldeln. In Orlllh ambition. G. any.“ «Mayaâ€"Occasional: lurked byGIth‘hthmuflMutc. 0n hearing of the accident and thg With the mallow Lake Fears Hydro Agnew! Would Mean Heavy Obligations Rumor sated Thu lie llul Died.