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.Vew Theatre Opened The new Capitol Theatre equipped with the very latest in motion picture machinery and sound control devices, with furnishings and decorations that would do credit to any city, threw its doors open to the public last night and was iiiied to capacity for the first performance. Due to the sudden death of the former proprietor, the contem- plated big opening was dispensed with and the affair last night was of a quiet and modest nature .-Midiand Argus. rm; Cu: 01 Grain on Train One of the largest trains of grain to cm In Mail Clerk: The postoflice department has made a change in the headquarters of its man clerks on the trains coming here. Mr. M. E. Peacock finished his mail ser- vice last week making his last. run be- for superannuation. He has been in the service 30 years and now retires on superannua‘hon. Mr. Fred Bell has had his headquarters changed to Toronto.â€" Meatord Mirror. Some young fellows of the town have gotten into trouble lately by taklng boats from the sheds at the fiver-bank. In one case. a tree was cut down to get the boat loose, and in another we the padlock was broken. Chief Meyer, who investlgated, has secured the names of the alleged miscreants, and we understand a charge ls to be laid against themâ€"Hanover Post. Chicken hm W In Police Magistrate We can't. mg. Lemon and Cruo pleated gutlty to two and three charges respectively. One each charge they were sentenced to one year definite and six months in- determlnate in Guelph Reformatory. The sentences are to run concurrently. (16.1. ‘l'.lallyM0m80I-i On Saturday Int about twenty Witt- Sound. The utendanee was so mmy- mg that it. was tound meet-try to hold the eminence. not in the Disciple: church as intended. but in 0mm) United church, which m ddmlnhly suited to the purposes-W lebo. PAGE 2 at McFADDEN’S DRUG STORE Annual Meeting of Presbyterian Lowering skies and intermittent showers failed to diminish the ardor o! the members of Maitland Presbyter- ial of the Presbyterian Church of Can- ada which held its eighteenth annual meeting in Lucknow Presbyterian church on Tuesday, May 10. Sessions were held morning, afternoon and evening, with Mrs. R. McWhinney of Dungannon, the Presbyterial president, presiding at the morning and after- noon session, and Rev. C. H. MacDon- ald at the evening meeting.â€"Wingham Advance-Times. A very beautiful sight is the magnolia tree in bloom in Mr. J. W. Tanner’s garden. The large blossoms are lovely, and are more numerous than they have ever been. They are somewhat tulip shaped and pinkish in color. Mr. H. E. Yeomans also has a tree of this kind in his garden, and, while the blossoms are not quite so numerous, are large, a deep pink and very beautiful. As far as way, at the corner of Ontario and Min- nesota streets and already are at work placing the necessary platforms and equipment for the handling of the stone, sand and ,concrete.â€"Collingwood Bulletin. Are heparin; for Paving The King Paving Co. which has the contract for the construction of nine miles of concrete paving between Col- lingwood and Stayner are right on the job. The headquarters of the company has been located in Collincwood on the grounds of the Canadian National Rail- Beach Park was formally opened when throngs of Grimm and a few brave swimmers crowded along the water- front.â€"Orfllia News-Letter. heretilnunezlaccordingtothecfleu- derithusiresdybecunasiarassum- merpastimee are concerned. Dancing at the Couchiching Beach Pavilion has started. Water sports on- ened on the lake this week. The first strawhathubeenseenonOrima being loaded with 100,000 babel: oi wheat and seven with general freight. Three locomotives were doing the hen!- inmonegoingbutunruthesidins at Bummmminbeioncedtothe 0.8.hrm3mrdsndmmiznedto Montreal for exportâ€"00W Bui- Slum]: Ben the Guardian National Line: was when out on Thursday. It consisted of fifty- eight an and a m. any of the cars omtbetrackso! 3rd. all Ram $4.25 On Tuesday afternoon a youth of 17} called at the store of J. T. Skales 8: Co. and asked to see the dollar watches. Mr, Howard Skales handed him one . and he made off with it without 36851.9?- iing payment. There was quite a stir3 for a while. The youth was pursued by one or more boys on bicycles, and Chief Flynn got after him in a car, captur- ing him east of the town, near Mir. Wm. Scott’s. The youth was very penitent and promised not to do the like again and was let go. He said his home was in Port Arthur, that there was a large family and he had to get out and make a living. He had been working recently gwith a farmer near Hanover. He had ionly a nickel in his pocket.â€"Mount jrorest Confederate. A spark from a tinsmith’s fire-box is believed to have caused the blaze, Mr. Vick stated today. Neighbors first dis- covered that the roof was in flames and notified Mrs. Vick by telephone. Immediate action by Mr. Vick and the tinsmith in keeping the fire from Spreading until the fire department ar- rived probably saved the building. The tinsmith had been soldering on the roof when the fire was discovered. The loss is covered by insurance. Theft of a Watch A True Fish Story Who ever heard of a fisherman hav- ing his tackle mixed up with the fam- ily washing? A Dundalk man had this experienceâ€"to his sorrow. Having left his fly cast and two flies in a damp cloth when he came home from fishing he thought that this part of his tackle would be quite safe. Imagine his sur- prise and disgust to find that the cloth had been thrown into the wash on Monday morning, churned about by an electric washer and then wound around the wringer! Talk about blue Monday and imagine the rest, if you like. Need- less to remark, said fisherman has a new cast now.â€"â€"Dundalk Herald. Landmark Threatened by Fire A well-known Orillia landmark, Her- bert Vick’s home, which has stood on the summit west of the Toronto high- way entrance to the town for nearly fifty years, was threatened by a fire that damaged the roof yesterday. the‘sum of $2,500 for alleged injuries sustained in a fad on the town side- walk, will be heard the latter part of this month. Mr. Burgess, it will be re- membered, fell on New Year’s Day on the walk near the Walker House, break- ing his leg in two places, and as a se- quence he now seeks to recover the above mentioned sum from the cor- poration, claiming that they were negli- gent in allowing the sidewalks to re- main in an unsafe conditionâ€"Hanover A wind and rain storm or alarming intensity accompanied by a thunder- storm, hit this district abwt 3.30 pm. on Monday, a strong south-west warm wind had blown all day, bringing along the hurricane and a deluge oi rain. Be- tween Dundalk and Corbetton two hy- dro poles were set on fire, presumably by lightning, while Prank Phalen, of Con.4,n-oton,hadabarnblowndown and Middaugh Bros, of Riverview a log stable flattened. Rail fences were also levelled. 8am McDonald’s house, a mile east of Dundalk, was struck by lightning but no serious damage was doneâ€"Dundalk Herald. maneuver-W A court action instituted by Mr. Ron- ald Burgess against Southampton in which the plaintia will seek to recover we know these mthe only two mac- nolhtreesmthhlouutymndmwen worth seeingâ€"Mount Forest Confeder- ate. Slight Damn In Storm Masons Allendomvinc Service The Wingham Lodge AF. 8:. AM. No. 286 held their annual church parade, and divine service at St. Paul’s church, Wingham, on Sunday last, May 15. There was a splendid tum-out of members, and a good many visitors rendered a very apprOpriate and much appreciated anthem, and Ham. Tem- pleman, kalnson, NortrOp and Doug- las sang “Nearer, My God, To Thee” very eflectively. A . 'fhe Rev. Ernest Hayes preached from the text 1 Cor. 3:10, “I have laid .the foundation, and another bundeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he bundeth thereupon." Everything in Medicine for man or beast THE DURHAM CHRONICLE GLOVES Charging that certain persons were circulating rumors to the effect that Simcoe councillors in recent years had been guilty of serious misdemeanors, Mayor Berry at a special council meet- ing publicly demanded a showdown and asked that any complaints be made di- rectly to the council. “entirely new and unsuspected char- acteristics.” Sir Hubert Wilkins, British explorer, said at Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday, that he expected to make a new scien- tific expedition to the North Pole in 1933 and 1934, using a submarine with Fire from unknown causes early Sun- day morning levelled the St. Clement’s Art Furniture Company, causing a loss of about $10,000. Capt. George Endres was killed Sat- urday, at Littorio Field, Rome, in a crash of his plane, “Justice of Hun- gary,” in which he and Capt. Alex- ander Magyar flew from Harbor Grace Newfoundland, to Budapest in 1931. Motor traffic was extremely heavy at Grimsby on Sunday, much heavier than the previous Sunday. Ten special buses of the T.T.C. drew into Grimsby at nine o’clock in the morning packed with visitors to blossom land. Visitors did not see a good dismay of bloom, for many of the delicate pink and pure white petals of the trees covered the ground like snow. Late cherry blossoms and a few early apples were out in full, but the heavy bloom evident through the week had either fallen or was bid- den by the foliage. Twenty-two thousand volts of elec- tricity passed through the Body of John Snider, 17, of Bakuvllle, Saturday. He fell 65 feet from the top of a steel tow- er to the ground, and lay conscious and in great agony, for more than a half hour before help arrived. Yet. the boy was still alive at Cornwall General Hos- pital on Sunady night with a fighting chance of recovery. Generous rainfall in many parts of Quebec Province over the week-end has halted spread of bush fires which had broken out in many districts. Accord- ing to Henri Kieffer, head of the pro- vincial forestry protection service, all fires are now under control. When their skin capsized in the Cat:- araqui River on their my home from a fishing trip of Belle Island about 6 o’clock Saturday night, three members of a party of four. from Kingston, were drowned and the other was saved. Amelia Earhart Putnam, who landed in Ireland Saturday, is the first wo- man to fly the Atlantic alone. and the first aviator to fly the Atlantic twice. The heaviest floods in half a century spread through the English Midlands Sunday, marooning thousands in and on their homes, disrupting an traflic, wrecking communications and causing great damage to prOperty. Neal Collins, 13, sought by search parties for six days after he became lost in the bush is in hospital at Sher- brooke, Que, recovering from the ef- fects of long exposure and hunger. foundland, to Londondex 13 hours am 15 minutes. Huge stores of Japanese munitions in Shanghai were endangered on Sun- day when a mysterious are We out on the Japanese army Mport Bombay Mam. The J apané’se authorities arrest- ed 30 Chinese coolies at the wharf on suspicion of incediarism. No relief will be given at Niagara Falls to able-bodied men who do not cultivate gardens this year. Seed for a selected list of vegetables will be is- sued by the Nlagara Falls Relief As- sociation, m be used in gardens at the nated by the city. Each mar given a. requisition entitling seeds valued at $1.50. J. R. MoCorken, parachute Jumper from Windsor, miraculously escaped in- stand death on Sunday at Stratford, day'rheG Inmmm OutnnedtortheB-ym News in Brief or on vacant lots desis- ed by the Boyd Dragoons amid much Chinese Communist hordes, ravaglng wide areas in Central China endanger- ed the safety of foreigners and threat- ened the Nankin Government with anâ€" other civil war last week. Orval Ashcroft, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ashcroft, of Colpoy’s Bay, was in- stantly killed at 4 o’clock Monday morning, when he fell down the hold of the 0.8.1.. Str. Emperor and crashed on to the steel tank tops. Word was re- ceived by his parents who left immed- iately for Port Colborne, where the boat was due to dock. The Emperor was Bewildered by another auto speeding towards him and by the sight of a man stepping in his path, Robert Porter, 49, lost control of his machine one night last week in Toronto, and swung over the curb on Manor Road, and ran over lawns striking down six persons, in- cluding a baby lying in its carriage. borne and was light. nary Helped. 26-year-old Indian mummnnfledmmmuon- Mmamy.Ponceheldm Cane. a negro. as a mutant! witness for the coroner's Inquest. An oil train, going from Coutts oil field to Lethbrldge Alta., was wrecked three miles east of there last Friday, causing the death of the engineer and loss by fire of hundreds of gallons of crude naphtha. The C. P. R. upper lakes passenger steamship Manitoba, which went a- ground at the head of Cape Croker m a dense fog at 3 o’clock Saturday morn- ing on her eastbound trip from the exploston late last Thursdcy. cussed damages estimated at more than “00,- womdmjuredaworkmmsoaeriws- 1y he died later in the evening. while passing a cross-over. No one was killed and early reports said no one was seriously injured. Irv- ing is 26 miles from Buffalo, near Lake Erie shore. premises of the Brim“: Products Ltd” The Sabbath calm of St. Hilda's An- glican church, Montml, was rudely dis- turbed Sunday when u burly mum walked up the church aisle to the altar. brushed away the vases contunlng Thirteen cars of the“ fifteen-car transcontinental mail, New York Cen- tral flier bound east from Cileveland, Ohio, were derailed Sunday night when the flier left the tracks at Irving, NY., while passing a cross-over. the altar, bent it in two and then pro- claimed himself as rector. General Julio Hidalgo. member of the Venesueian Senate and former Gover- nor of the Federal District, died in a hospital recently of injuries received when he attempted to shoot General Aristides Galavis, a personal enemy, on a crowded street in front of the princi- pal department store of Caracas, Vene- The Children of the Farm ' Matthehkumreleuedn.tev minutes utter four o’clock an aunt! utemoonbythemamhon,otthe Johnamuonundaom.00..o(0m The 81.410le!!“ (3 verysmnnm- acumen-ad'moedommmw (Mon tortheputtwom.m- mmemmomumn- nonbloomsametohandduunglm. Amimeocnphedcirwhtmheenu- lent results were secured with both peeled and unpeeled 0011115. The tem- pereture of the both should be kept up to 120 degrees for the entire period. This can be done by adding smell quantities of hot water to the bath from time to time. Care must be taken not to allow the temperature to go over the 120 degrees Fahrenheit es injury to the corms any result. COMMON TABLE SALT . 0FTEN HELPS STOIACH Drin flent water with pinch of salt. It 1th gas add a spoon of Adler! lsmashes out BOTH stom- ach a and_ rids you of all g”. deadly poison the greatest care should be exercised in its use. Hot Water All stages of the thrips, including the eggs, are killed by dipping the corms in hot water at a temperature of 120 de- grees, for a periOd of 10 minutes. It appears to be immaterial whether the methods. mmflpswinterova-on conuiustormmdtnthesMngm mmmmuwhenmmm planted. attainment-Imam Dmmpllntlncisrecommendedu themostpmmidngmethodotcontrol utpmnntknown. Nahum either by fumlnuon or dipping meth- The grower. with only a few comm whethwmprobeblynndoneotthe tollowlng dips more ample and enter to adopt than my of the fummtlou methods. They are just as efleotlve and are. in general, equally cheap or cheap. earthenware, camel or glass. vessels. since lt quickly con-odes metals. The material should be dissolved in a small amount of hot water and then diluted After peeling dip the corms for 8 hours in a solution made up of 1 ounce of corrosive sublimate dissolved in 6 gallons of water. at a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. All stages of the thrips, including the eggs, were killed by this treatment Peeling of the corms is essential it perfect control is to re- sult. Corrosive sublimate should be GLADIOLUS ms com recently by the Entomological My. I» it. I!!!