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Durham Branch - - - J. A. Rowland, Manager Some little time ago Thomas Allen had killed amthch nettedhlm 165 pounds or choice pork. This was cut upmdputinabarrellnthe wooished. 'l'htevingtsasin,nomatterwhatveil aomepeovle seektothrow over it, and thisdistrictweareaorrytosay,ha.s some individuals at this type. Last Thursday night two men visited Bob McPhersop‘s farm on the 37th S. R.,Proton,a.ndcarrledoflacanof m. miswudonewhneBoband hishlredmanwereaomgtheevenmg m it is thought. Petty Waving Around m comptny as shipper for this year.â€" Spoflard, who had resigned a month ago. Mr. Sockett will have as his as- sistant, Mr. Mervin Wright of Maxwell. There were forty-five applications re- ceived by Secretary, Garnet Magee, and Er. Sockett was chosen, as his exper- ience warranted his being hired. He is amarriedmanwithonechildandisat present looking for a residence. He ar- rived in town today and w. Wright New Steu- Mr Mr. J. C. Sockett of Underwood has been engaged as manager of the Osprey end Artemm Cooperative Co.’s store [straw Council be“ Trouble At the unusual meeting of the 0111- lia town council the new members were alarmed upon making the discovery that not only had the Government de- clined to promise any further financial assistance to the municipality, due to the extravagance oi the 1931 council in its handling of the unemployment re- lief grant, but also that there was an overdrait of $31,002.50 in the town’s ciment bank account. A bylaw was 0100,000 from the Royal Bank to meet current expenditure until taxes are col- the prescnttimeittsmmnbloomand by actual count has thirty buds. It is otadeepcflmaoncolorandotthelarg- est variety. The cyclamen is a native «flowersmdalwsyskeepssfewm hissm'eforthepleamn'eothismn- tomers.Atthepresentt1mebelsthe possessor of the 11311de cyclsmen plant we have ever seen. The plant is one which he raised from seed. At me,dlacovu-edsomethm¢tmumalon Maneuofhcn’aeusm unamwoolwhmw.0nr- sonststuwerehtdonflntmdsymâ€" mg and mdhen‘dnyortwohe- Januaryâ€"Medan! Mirror. Lanna! flows: Emmthmm PAGE 2. In Other Counties ammo-mm I HERE ' o t price for happiness. Yet to possess it s ' ve all that is worth while. A Savings ount has been the first step towards happiness for many men and women. Why not take that step today? The Royal Bank of Canada You mil like banking at the Royal “Have been honeymooning at Niag- ara. Back to Normal tomorrow.” frobably Quite True A young lady studying for a teacher at Strattord slipped away from the school one day without saying any- thing, to become secretly married. A couple of days later the young bride sent the following telegram to the prin- cipal : wages, but the county legislators be- lieved that in view of the diflicult times through which we are passing, and the necessity for retrenchment tion should be taken. There will be a considerable reduc- tion in the amount to be spent on the roads throughout the county this year, which will mean quite a saving, .and curtailments will be made wherever possible. ' The address delivered to the council on Friday by Dr. David Jamieson of Durham, chairman of the Mothers’ Al- lowance and Old Age Pension Boards of Ontario, was greatly appreciated. It was enlightening and informative, and will be of benefit to the committee to whom is entrusted the administration of the Old Age Pension Act in this county. The decision to have a thorough audit made of the books of the County Engineer, which was concurred in by Engineer McKnight himself, was a good move. There was not the slightest reflection on Mr. McKnight, either as tohisabilityasanengineeroroi his honesty and integrity, but audits of this kind are always beneficial, and every- when it. is concludedâ€"Owen Sound discussed by the council during the week was that of the salaries of county officials, and a cut of 15 per cent was made, but was not done without some vigorous opposition. It is always an un- pleasant thing to cut salaries and which is necessary and in keeping with the dignity of thewody over which he Grey County Council’s January Session The January session of the Grey _County Council, which closed on Sat- urday,wasoneoithebusiestinyears. The members held the opening session on Tuesday evening, and they worked hard iorthebalance oftheweek in order to get their business- completed. Warden Allan Bell, of Durham, made an excellent presiding oflicer, and al- though at times the debates gave pro- mise of being rather heated, he suc- OOW. the culprits didn't succeed in their mission. The parties left enough evidence to make their identity fairly well known, and should they make an- someonehadbeenaeekmgtogunen- mncetomesta'e.1heaormdmr hsdbeenpdedopenmdanauempt made to “Jimmie” the lock on the In- sidedoor. Whetherdlsturbedorlodng Lust may morning when W. J. a One of the most important matters Rare and odd watches, collected in a lifetime of watchmaking, will attest to the memory of John Sutcliffe Smith, who died at St. Catharines recently. Smith made a hobby of collecting un- usual watches. A part of his collection, presented recently to the Ontario Museum at Toronto was valued at $300,000. Among his unique collection of timepieces was a watch 250 years old, of English make. Despondent because he could not get work and had no money to pay for his board and lodging, George Irons, an able-bodied young man, decided he woud do something that would land him in jail, where he would' be sure of three meals a day and a place to lay his weary head at night. He stole a car, drove around recklessly, was ar- rested and in police court was sen- tenced to one year in Ontario Reforma- An expedition headed by Dr. Jotham Johnson, of Philadelphia, has uncov- ered an ancient market place said to be the most complete archaeological dis- covery of its kind. An entire forum. three temples and ampitheatres, aque- ducts, shipping warehouses, and dock- yards were unearthed on the site of the buried city, 90 miles from Rome. Christopher (Bat) Battalino, former world champion featherweight, must pay a $5,000 fine and go into indefinite retirement because of his “no contest” ring fiasco with Freddie Millar, Cincin- nati challenger. Dr. Walter in discussing social con- ditions generally in Russia, and touch- ing upon the relation of the sexes, em- phasized the utter disregard for cram:- ary sex differences by pointing out that it was no uncommon sight to see two soccer teams at play, one composed of six men and five women, the other of nine women and two men. Men and ,womemhepommdoutareinmmsiaon ‘a basis of absolute equality. L The minutes which elapse while waiting for the Iondon street cars are being putto good use-by one woman. She does not stand on the corner watching pedestrians go by, nor does she make strange mutterings about the in Canada was approximately as fol- lows: Two and a halt pounds of meat, seven ounces of bakers’ bread, five eggs six and a half ounces of butter, nearly an ounce of cheese, five cents worth of canned goods and nearly three ounces of confectionery. Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express, London, England, said recently reports were current that the Dominions would receive no preference under proposed tariff measures to be paced before the House of Commons by the Govern- ment. hasbeen sent totheUniversity of Michiganmuseum. A blaze of glory marked the demise of an unidentified cat at, Paris, On- ltario when it aspired to travel along high tension wires at a local sub-sta- tion. Its venture sent a flash of blue flame into the sky that was visible both in Paris and other nearby centres. It Iain put the lights out. Mr. Andrew Thomson, a native of Arran township, Bruce county, and a graduate of the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute, until recently aerologist for the government of New Zealand, has joined the staff at the Dominion Meteorological office at Toronto. A spokesman for leading Wall Street banking interests has announced that neither Japan nor China could obtain a. loan in New York or London to finance a Far Eastern war. Some matter-of-fact advice was handed out to parents. by Magistrate E. C. Spereman in police court on Satur- day morning in Owen Sound when two boys were given suspended sentence on charges of theft. The magistrate round- ly condemned the fathers for allowing} their sons to run around until they were finally faced with a penitentiary sentence. “The responsibility for a boy’s actions is solely with the parents,” stated Mr. Spereman. Two Dummer Township men now look back upon a meeting with a black bear which gave them some excitement. The pair, John A. C‘rowe and Joseph Bretout, disturbed the animal in its winter retreat and it attacked them. Bretour succeeded in slaying it with an axe. The bear weighed 247 pounds. The standard of living in Canada continues on a high level, according to a report of the Department of Trade‘ on the annual per capita consumption of food. The retail price of food, however, has greatly decreased in the past year, the report adds. Available reports for 1931 show that the average daily bill of fare for a family of five street car service. She reads her Bible. It was a rare bird that deputy sheriff Willard Welsh, Michigan Bault, shot On Thursday of last. week. What he first believed to be a. hawk has been identi- fied as a gyrfaloon. Only one other mmuuunappenmpm Wtortth-ym News in Brief THE DURHAM CHRONICLE During the height of a spectacular blaze in the Bishop's Palace of Rt. Rev. R. A. O’Connor at Peterboro, His Lord- ship became agitated when he saw a fireman scrambling like a monkey along the cornice of the lofty blazing roof, with leaping flames on one side and a sheer drop on the other. “I ran through the crowd frantically,” Bishop O'Connor said, “searching for the chief to implore him to call the man from such danger None of the firemen knew where the chief was ,until finally one of them pointed upward casually and said, ‘That’s Chief Gimlett up on the “Canada’s adverse trade balance, from which the country emerged a few months ago was alone caused by the recent Hawley-Smoot tarifl policy of the United States,” said Hon. H. H. Stevens, Minister of Trade and Com- merce, in a pm release. He included export figures showing the extent to which Canadian trade had suffered by the latest increase in the United States tarifl’ wall, adding, broadly speaking. exports of Canadian farms to United States have fallen to only about one- nineteenth of what they were 10 years Clyde White, 11, of Sault Ste. Marie, had one of his fingers torn off at the first joint by “Bamey” the tame wolf at Bellevue Park, when the boy placed his mittened hand on the door of the animal’s cage. January 25, the Bank of England on February 1 repaid the $150,000,000 bal- ance of the credit advanced to it last August by the New York Federal Re- serve banks and the Bank of France. killed by M Johnson, demented trapper,ata.poht30mllesupthe3at R1ver,Alberts.lthn'daymornlng. The kmmgoccun'edinmerolungburens oftheupperRatRlver,abwt30mnes from where theatre-m flows into the rushing Mackenzie. Apparently John- dynamite shattered cabin to the Yukon boundary, about 100 miles distant. A jaimeyofanotherloomilesacrossthe northern tip of the Yukon would take him into Alaska. U. 8. territory. Renewed confidence in the future of Western Canada, particularly as a live Staking his post as leader of 'the Progressive party on endorsation of his plan for a working arrangement "with Mitchell Hepburn, Liberal Leader, H. C. Nixon, M.P.P. for Brant, has offer- ed to resign if the policy does not meet with the wishes of the majority of the party. With the Government’s present strength in the House encouraging what he describes as a period of “reck- less spending”. Mr. Nixon believes that co-operation between Progressives and Liberals whose interests, he says, are very similar, is the only means of carry- ing on a useful Opposition. If such a view is not held by the party he will, he declares, be only too glad to relin- quish the honors of leadership. him some tires.” Ford found the In- dian, talked long and hard, but could not make a. sale. Edison insisted that Firestone must try even though he had scant excuse for a market. Edison glad- ly paid his bet. when Firestone sold In- dian Senior one tire to be used as a hoop by Indian Junior. . Firestone was the better salesman. Edison bet that neither of them could sell a product in the small town where they had stapped. A rich Indian lived there. “Go and sell him a car, Henry,” ment . arose as to whether Ford or were injured but the plane was con- siderably damaged. Six months ago physicians told Harry Escol, 29, that he would have to be silent for: six months or lose his voice. He was suffering from tuberculosis laryngitis and it was necessary to keep him silent to let two cavities in his right lung heal. Harvey The machine tipped to the left with two broken longerons. The plane went mummtoldbyameumerotthe mndonpoucetorcemthehuwuch- Bibleon downtown comers. pz'oachedher undated the Fanning its announcement made on Steel’s Stores Limited. for sale under the Bankruptcy Act, have been sold to Morris Schneiderman, Montreal, chain country north of Bowmanville ,relieved of $175 and left to walk home. He was given a 11ft by a passing motorist. drawn guns to climb into a sedan at a secluded section of the street near his home, J. S. Oakley, manager of the Dominion Stores’ branch, King stneet West, Oshawa, was taken into the pelt, more than seven feet in length. Seguin snared the animal, but around its neck were two old snares it had pre- viously broken. State police laughed indulgently when Thomas Gordon, 102, of Grand Rapids, applied for an automobile dri- ver’s license. Finally they conceded his physical fitness to operate a car, issued his credentials and pronounced him the oldest licensed driver in the Although an attempt made last fall by some members of the Orillia council to pass a bylaw forbidding the sale of unpasteurized milk, failed, the issue has been revived and seems likely to become another thorn in the flesh of the 1932 council, already beset by unemploy- ment relief problems. Farmers have been aroused by the activities of local milk dealers and have threatened to establish, even if at a financial loss, a co-operative dairy and pasteurization plant in Orillia township outside the Rev. Joseph Annand’s death in Nova Scotia will be mourned in the New Heb- rides, where he trained former canni- bals as Christian pastors and teachers. Dr. Annand was almost the 1351: sur- vivor of the Canadian mission which gave martyrs to the faith shortly before his arrival in the islands. The reforestation committee of Vic- toria County Council has purchased additional landâ€"some 400 acres in Somerville Townshipâ€"the price paid being six cents per acre. This is claim- edtobethelowestprlceeverpaidin the Dominion for reforestation pur- The king of all timber wolves, near Noelvllle, is no more. Orland 8e. gain, a farmer there, now has his Workmen digging in Ollman Bros. gravel pit at West Hamilton Saturday uncovered the antler of a prehistoric elk. Prof. W. H. McNairn of the geology department of McMaster Unlverstiy, said the antler probably belonged to an elk migrating north shortly after the glacial period about 25,000 years ago. The antler measured five feet in length and one and a half inches in diameter, and was in a good state of preservation. Puebeltevedtohavebeencuuedby tdefectivechlmney,mptwm each hour. The tour allied western na- tionshavejoinedthenewproteststo Japan over its violation of the neutral- ity of 'the internntional settlement. and Fiance, Britain and the United States have warships standing guard of! the coast. Pranee, Italy, Great Britain and the United States were pledged to preserve asolidfrontatamnxhuintheirefl'ort to defend western interests and prevent the outbreak of a disastrous clash with Japan It was admitted that the sit- Thomas.morlyuternoonuond‘yand did seven] thmmnd dolurs’ worth of POTTER'S ENGLISH PRINT BEACONSFIELD PRINT FANCY one” ‘ ”we!" ”a; 2;, m ' m good q 5' : te nude or choice audit! rayon “1 mmd with‘colomd check de- aasortedcolors. Seetheae. m use 18:34. Very special. Phone 202 The Store for Honest Val February Savings ' Prints! - Cushions! - Towels! COME IN AND SEE THEM JOHNSTON’S FREE rm SALE FEBRUARY E. F. GRAFF 8: CO. 59¢ each Cunndhnproducflonotmm ummmamm mkmdinthkconnecflonfloo.l Ind customs duty. Both the federal end provincial De- partments of Agriculture ere co-oper- sting in crop and seed inspection eer- vioes, 1n the supervision of um: flcation. At the present time the bulk of Canadian production comes from Quebec. Alberta and British Goi'lmbh. Spa-In; Howe" TULIPSâ€"NARCISSUSâ€"DAFFODILS CARNAflONSâ€"IOSES “Misevuenuymomtorm mmmthehome mm d timothy'aeedcndthuemhmm mmwoommmm It mkhtbeproducedpronublyum OWEN SOUND Wedding Bouquets and Funeral Designs made to order. Reperesentgd 19 Durham by Thelosloommwcmcmpotumothy mmmumulmm babymtumsmedmthux-Dommmn course 00an hugely by the page at which United m expat-tax can lay their product down It Can-Aha points, and this price includes such ltemsasthe ooutoftheaeed,u1mpor- tmmhymmVegwmm- mom-mumy. ma momma» been imported tram the United States. 1|thme tn has been tuny 9,000,000 103. mundflcentsperpoundwhflethe prioeinWestcx-nclmdaismmdt NORTHERN NURSERIES WHOMWBD "manna-rm" a. Win” mar vou can an. COUNTER I‘ll-*7. M C. I." 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