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sar} «ex-vices 'hich m ited church on “Mt ded by large m morning and am Mr. Holmes. W n furlough and 1m cached with mg: «m- descnp-icn of the '0“ most interesting. m, said they could bu r hour. We bone '0 ed to hear Mr. nu... htheir work there ha; in the congregation did asual anniversary m l Monday. the consent... are very generous, m- lack of the supper. A3. , Sunday the choir film. music which was much fords ldren 25c 3111‘ .ISES RA 01' »o--o--o- woo-om D? VOL. 63.â€"NO. 3248. Car Accidents Were Numerous Last Week Durham and Vicinity Had More Than Average Number Last Week, Some 0! Them Serious, While Other Motorists There is never a week passes that one or more motor accidents do not occur in the vicinity but last week was unique in that a couple of peculiar ones lent excitement for a time, though no one was seriously injured. On Thursday afternoon Colin McAr- thur Jr. of Glenelg was motoring up Garafraxa street when without warn- ing a front wheel came of! his machine when nearing the Lambton street corner and for a second it looked like a bad spill. When the front axle dropped the car swerved across the street but was brought to a stop in front of the Hunter hardware. Luckily the street was void of traffic or something ser- ious would most assuredly have hap- pened. The wheel went careening up the pavement, struck the curb, bounced high in the air and banged up against the wall of the Bank of Commerce building. narrowly missing a window. . An hour or so afterwards a Michigan motorist was coming down the hill south of Varney when a tire went fiat. He jammed on his brakes and Joe Lennox of Egremont. who witnessed the whole thing. says the car went over endways twice before it settled in the ditch. The driver must have been stunned for he was a minute or so in making any effort to get out. but was unhuri. Friday night when coming from Han- over. Dr. Pickering of town and a car belonging to a Mr. Russworm of Han- over came together a couple of miles east of Hanover and were badly dam- â€" A. L-n-A-AA Had Miraculous Euapes. CGDU UL lbwoovv aged. It will .6052}: couple of hundred dollars to repair tpe-Pjpkering machine. _ -_Ll-._ LA‘IA We understand that the parties have come to the mutual understanding that each will pay hia ptvn‘costs rather than - ~ALL‘- ‘kn On Friday night a car owned and ‘ “' ' driven by Dave Marshall, with Robert the Renwick as a passenger ran into a the horse at the top of the hill south of tim Varney. The car was ditched and both riec motorists rendered unconscious when “'3‘ the car ran into a tree and was bac’l‘tty ”5 wrecked. Both patients were taken to sec Durham hospital suffering from severe St“ lacerations about the head. bruises and accident Renwick was T11 the first to come to and found Mfir- W0 shall still unconscious in the wreck. dr: Fortunately a car came along shortly m1 afterwards and both were taken to the as heir injuries were at- fu: tended to by Dr. A M. Bell. The horse th was the prOpert of William Finnigan .to who lives south of Barber’s Corners. dc and in the mix-up had its let broken th dz and had to be destroyed. # as VI A DJ succeeding generations. CHANGE HOSPITAL THE DURHAM CHRoylgg Car Struck Horse o! the mm of the Mount. Rise in River Wrecks l Walkerton Dam! Heavy Rainfall Monday Night Caused River to Rise and Walkcrton Dam Wen‘. Out. The W. B. Foshay Co., of Minneapo- lis. Minn, owners of the plant of the Walkerton Electric Light and Power 00.. suffered another heavy loss some- time during Monday night when a sec- tion of their dam about 30 feet in width was carried away by rising waters in the Saugeen river. The rise in the water was due to an exceptionally heavy rain storm which broke over the entire section of country surrounding Walkerton shortly after 10 o’clock, but it was not until sometime later that kthe river began to show the effects of the rain and it is not known the exact time the section of the dam was car- ried away. The section which went out was that from the flood gates to the east band, and was known as the older section, although it had only been con- structed some 15 years ago. Second Severe Loss The Walkerton Electric Light and, Power Co. suffered the loss of a large section of this dam in the spring fresh- ets this year, and it was just recently that it was replaced at a cost of ap- proximaely between $40,000 and $50,000. The complete equipment used in the work of rebuilding, including the pile driving machinery. etc., had been re- ‘ moved from Walkerton just a few days ago and taken to Southampton, where further work was contemplated, and lithis will necessitate it being brought l 1 Hon. Charles McCrea, Ontario Minister of Mines, who estimates the new lignite field recently dis- covered in Northern Ontario will produce at least 20,000,000 tons of coal instead of the 10,000,000 tons first estimated by the Ontario Gov- emmen'c. GIVES OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATE to Walkerton at once if the Foshay Co. decides to rebuild, as it is expected they will. This latest break in the dam comes at a most inopportune time as it means that all the money expend- ed on the rebuilding of the dam lost in the spring will be lost until such time as this last section, carried away on Monday night, is rebuilt, as there is now no water available for the devel- opment of power. This latest loss will greatly cripple the Walkerton Electric Light and Power Co., which has expanded into the rural sections of Bruce during the last few months to a considreable extent. A rumor persisted in Walkerton on Tuesday morning that the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission had completed negotiations for the pur- chase of the Foshay interests in Bruce county, and this rumor soon spread throughout the county, but there is no confirmation of the report, although it 7 LA--- “VIIIJ. -.-w'-v-‘ _ _ is well known that n'egotiations have been in progress for some time past. WESTERN FARMER’S LOT HARD ONE THIS YEAR Scarcity of Water A Serious Problem. and No Relief in Sightâ€"No Rain in vnlvua av a..- _â€"--_ _ of roses to lie on, hint 3vho has, for that _. AI-- matter? During the past few weeks and especially around the harvest per- iod reports from the West indicated a shortage this year that would seriously handicap the buying power of the ag-' riculturists of Western Canada. Some seemed to regard the various reports as “newspaper talk” but in the last issue of the Loreburn (Sash) Herald, left Greatly Grimm-“d South Grey Fair Was Held Yesterday Cool Weather lnteriered Somewhat With Attendance at Greatest Exhibit of Farm Stock, Produce and Fine Arts Seen Here in Yumâ€"Most Classes Were Pretty Well Filled. Yesterday was the date of the‘ second day of the South Grey Fall Fair. On Tuesday it rained and Wed- nesday morning broke clear and cold. Despite this there was a good crowd in attendance though the cold weather un- doubtedly prevented many from putting in an appearance who would have been there had the day been warm. At that the gate receipts were quite satisfactory, but best of all the exhibits this year eclipsed any for a good many years and almost proved false the oft-made assertion that the Fall Fair had seen its day and it was only a matter of time before it would disappear from the picture. _ - ._L!__- vâ€"â€"v râ€"....... This year’s Show was a revelation to even the directorate, the entries ex- ceeded all expectations, we are told, and classes that went begging in other years were well represented. The in- side exhibits, especially among! the lad- . ies’ work. have always been good but even these increased this year with even better quality than before. The entries of grain. roots and vegetables were away above the average. Out on the grounds, too, the same upheaval was noticed. -Stock shown was numerâ€" ous and of good quality with exhibit- ors from Teeswater and Neustadt as well as other distant points competing for the prize money. CV- '--v r__ This year’s show was certainly some- thing to go to and those who remained away on account of the cool weather missed a chance to see what. the farm- ers in this section of Ontario are pro- ducing. _. 7---- _---n“AI. “HD1815- Music for the afternoon was supplied by the Moltke Bank of 24 pieces and they were not the least bit stingy with their selections. playing up town before 1 o’clock and almost continuously dur- ing the afternoon. They are a good bunch of boys. take a delight in their _--‘A Hun-v- _ playing and earn their money. some- thing that cannot be said about a num- ber of these musical organizations whose slogan seems to be not how much but how little they can get away with. - A ‘_--.A UUV IIU" aavvas- v.. The Moltke boys delighted the crowd present and have almost assured them- selves a return engagement next year if they are open for such events. Two Section Scale Installed First Time in Canada. Taking into consideration 1 he fact that the most important requirement. of a modern railroad track scale is that it must maintain its accuracy and sensitiveness over long periods of time under the heavy, continuous service of present day operation. the Canadian National Railways have installed, at lEdmunston. N.B., the most modern equipment in the form of two section in use in Canada. It has a fifty foot weigh rail and a sectional capacity of 150 tons, with a weigh beam capacity of the same num- ber of tons. The beam is of the type registering design and, if necessary, can be supplemented by a counterpoise weight of 100,000 pounds. It ‘is thus capable of weighing a load of 400,000; pounds at one time. -“- -1 LI... Ant-‘1'" Wublw "V '-â€"v vâ€"__- The important feature of the design of this scale is that it has the minimum maintained at all times by means of the quick return of the weigh bridge to its normal position after the load moves on or off. It has also freedom of movement and at the same time ex- ! tremo rigidity and _ strength. U‘ U Dun-J "-â€" v _ The structural steel weigh bridge on this scale has an actual weight of more than twenty tons. This weight is nec-. essary in the two section scale because I the dead rail is eliminated, which ef- fects a direct saving in switching time The most modern railroad weighing equipment to be installed previously was of the tour section type. The 991- Iimination of two entire sections with ‘conecting longitudinal levers results, as has been said, in greater accuracy over [a longer period of time, which reduced maintenance cost. MAMB ’0' PAST m RED CROSS MEETING For the CLAIMS “REVIVO” FAILED T0 REVIVE A case of general interest will short- ly be aired in the division court, In:- riston, before Judge Sutherland, which isansctionsrisingoutoithessleot 10 gallons of battery revlvo by A. E. Foster, of London. to Maurice Brown, battery and service p_roprietor of Her- riston. Brown paid Foster $3 a gallon for the liquid, handing him 35 in cash and a check for the balance, Foster later purchased gasoline from another local service station. tendering the check in payment. In the meantime Brown, who had tried out a quantity 0! battery revivo' and finding it not what it was cracked up to be, notified the bank to stop payment of the check. When the possessor of the check se- cured this information he immediately visited Brown in an attempt to secure the cash. when Brown refused to do. hence the suit. It appears that when Foster sold Brown the liquid he prom- ised to return the first of the next week and demonstrate the qualities of the liquid to customers of Brown as well as distribute advertising literature and erect an electric sign in front of Brown’s shop, which promises Foster has failed to live up to. Lawyer Klein of Walkerton is acting for Brown. EXHIBITS DIAMOND MADE FROM SUGAR Gem Is Only Size of Grain of Sand But Is Largest Yet Made by Man.â€" Claims Large Jewels May Yet Be Turned Ont. Prediction that “large and beauti- ful” real diamonds can be made by man, was made to the American Chemical society today by Prof. J. Willard Hershey of McPherson col- lege, McPherson, Kansas. -_°', He laid on a glass slide a tiny crys- tal, the size of a grain of sand. He said it was a real diamond. produced in his laboratory at McPherson. It was made from ordinary pure table sugar, subjected to pressure estimated at 10 tons to the square inch. He said further that it was the largest -A--__1.I one“ 5 “A Ullv man-mad diamond in the world,‘ four times the size of the biggest one produced in the ’90’s by the French' chemist, Moissan, whose method of manufacture he copied. He cited tests to show the audience of chem-i ists that the diamond was real. 1 Professor Hershey said he melted iron filings and sugar in graphite cru-- cibles the size of fists. They were cooked in an electrical furnace at temperatures up to nearly 5,000 degâ€" rees Fahrenheit. When white hot they were plunged into ice-cold brine,i the theory being that the immense: pressure created by fast cooling would |turn the sugar into diamonds. Sugar is one form of pure carbon of which real diamonds are made. C. 7,,2LI_ L V“. “- ---'--ww _-_ Next he dissolved the iron balls with various acids. After a week he had dissolved everything except some dust which was the sugar-carbon product. Some of this dust was graphite, an- other torm of carbon. It was searched with microscopes and Prof.. Hershey said: “Hundreds of microscopic particles and some larger diamonds so far have been produced at McPherson college. [I believe that the artificial construc- tion of diamonds from the scientific point of view is no longer an unat- W. N. Lemon. of Wilrnot Township,‘ was fined $25 and costs in police court here today on a charge of reckless} driving laid by Engineer W. H. Ball of ‘1 }Stratford, of the CNR. On August 29 Lemon’s car crashed into the side of the engine driven by Ball at the Kitchener Man Paid 325 and Costs In Unique Case. A‘ 311:1 from LL- SEPTEMBER 19. AUTO INTO Chicken Theives J. W. Blyth Lost Seven! Valued Birds v -D-vâ€"vâ€"â€" tario for thewâ€"past few years. has not ll abated very much and while this vicin- i ity has not suffered overly much from the depredations several poultry raisers during the past summer have had their pens visited and in nearly all instances entirely cleaned out. Last Friday night the henhouse of Mr. J. W. Blyth at Varney was visited and 25 White Wyandottes lifted. These | {were all good birds ranging in age from ‘ one to two years, and out of a flockl of ‘ 45 Mr. Blyth reports only 16 to 18 birds remaining. It is surmised that these escaped and the thieves did not care . to risk discovery in looking them up. I The method of robbery is also aI mystery to Mr. Blyth as the birds remaining were very stupid for a day‘ 'or two, indicating that some kind of Mom had been injected into the pen be- ‘fore the robbery was committed. The roost was visited some time after mid- night as a member of the family was in the stable about that time and noticed nothing amiss. Mr. Blyth inâ€" forms us that he has absolutely no sus- ' ing his fowl or bringing the thieves to ’ justice is very slight. for the Dominions. who quashed the rumor that the British Gov- ernment would give up the man- date for Palestine owing to the recent trouble in the East. TRUCK DRIVER KILLED NEAR KENILWORTH Chicken thievery, so common_ in On- Duflcrln Construction Conway‘s Big Truck Went in bitch and FQRM On Wednesday night of last week when the workmen were going home to supper the true]; in__which they were _ ..4 .Il-‘ ""ru' ‘ riding went in the ditch a short dist- ance north of Kenilworth and the gang foreman. G. Dellamotto was so badly injured internally that he died shortly after the accident. Three other work- Lord Passfleld. Secretary of egatg b llvuyovu- â€"v --_-..__- _ mg {with a broken arm, broiérl ribs rand othe.- injuries, but happily not in a serious condition. ;rléh, including the driver, were taken to the hospital at Moun_t F‘prest suffer- The truck was southbound at the time of the accident and about twenty of the company’s employees were in it when it left the pavement. It was. not going at an excessive speed but the soft shoulder on the side of the road. gave the driver no chance of bringing the nerkip, is on hoard ship on her way out from Italy to join her husband. DUTCH VISITOR THINKS CANADIAN SUNDAY FBIGH‘I‘FUL From Italy. Visited Vamey 82.003YurinCundI:$2.50hU.B. 0n be tapped- BENTINCK WOMAN COMMITTED SUICIDE Tueday to learn that Mrs. James Parks, who resided with her husband and two children in Bentinck township about 4 miles west of Dornoch. had taken her life in a most shocking man- ner. Mrs. Parks had not been enjoying the best of health for some little time and for a week previous to her commit- ting her rash act had been acting strangely, having failed to recover [from an attack of the flu which she had last spring. It was at the noon hour on Tues- day that Mrs. Parks slipped quietly out of the house while her husband and two small sons, aged 8 and 4 years respectively. were at the dinner table. and although her husband followed her almost immediately he failed to reach her before she took her own life with a razor. death ensuing before the services of a physician friends. Much sympathy is express for the bereaved husband and family. angular bf Mr. Philip Corlett of Mooresburg‘ and um always _been held PLAN PABLEY ON took 3 joint. step to bring shout a world conference on the lowering of tariff barriers, in the spirit oi the comments by European statesmen fiihhd’s project 'for a ‘united states of '11:} delentions of the two nations recommended in the economic com- mittee of the League of Nations. thot negotiations be begun between mem- bers of the league ond non-members us well to promote a meeting a; the Pendlnz the convening of the world W on economic questions. the other muons were thus requested to hold down their mm. It to proposed to hold n conference not only of (counted! experts but of “IO Pvl'w' ___, V ported by Dr. Hugh Dalton. men of the British W Government. mile formerly; estim- 10 her husband and aged 8 and 4 years at the dlnner table. .- husband followed lately he felled to a she took her own death ensuing before I nhyslclun could be anemic com- Nuuons that etween mem- non-members acting a; the mean! would the eldest