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Durham Chronicle (1867), 9 Jun 1932, p. 2

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Excellent Service On Sunday last a long distance call was put in at the Listowel office of the Bell Telephone Co. to a party in Van- couver. 8.0. In less than five minutes the necessary connections were made and the conversation was in progress. The reception was excellent and the voices were heard very distinctlyâ€"Lisâ€" towei Standard. prominent part in the alt circus con- ducted by the London Flying Club at the Forest City Airport, Saturday and Sunday. In the balloon strafing con- Get Final Treatment The final toxoid treatment has been received by 250 pupils of the Listowel Public School. A few of the pupils have yet to receive the final treatment which will be given the week after next. These fortunate children will now be immune to diphtheria. The work has been un- der the direction of Dr. J. G. Kirk, M. O. H.-â€"Listowel Standard. field of Kitchenet, ”rived in Puma- stonlutweektotakeomtheduuu otcmblenarryflouewholefllut week for his new dune-mm m my W Congratulanons are due Miss Isobel Runes, mister or Mr. and Hrs. Percy Rainmwho hupanedhernnnyur and securedherdcueemphmym Toronto. Miss Runes served hot ap- bell, and is Goderlch’s first. lady dru- gist.â€"Goderich Star. New mum PAGE 2 puma. an,” Lowest Prices ”3,an - Weekw Return $4.25 at mprhastorthebogt hwn W- McFADDEN’S DRUG Bruce Deanery at Mac The Anglican Deanery for the County of Bruce met in the parish hall of the Anglican church on Friday evening last tor the purpose or setting a date for the annual deancry picnic. Represen- tatives were present from Walkerton, Paisley, Bervle, Chesley and Lucknow. Port Elgln was approved by all as the location for the 1932 picnic, and the Relic! Work in Hanover After a great deal of discussion, the relief meeting held in the town hall last Monday evening at the call of Mayor Armstrong, decided to appoint a committee to have charge of relief work in Hanover for the next few months at least. Members appointed to the committee were Miss Kirchner, Mrs. H. M. Huber and Messrs. Wm. Weigel. J. AT. Patterson and H. L. Reinhardtâ€"Hanover Post. News. Horses for Toronto Horses seem to be coming back on city streets. Dr. C. L. Morgan has just completed filling an order for wagon horses for one of the larger Toronto firms. This is the third consignment of horses Dr. Morgan has filled since Marcho it his year, with prices rang- ing from $120 to $160. The above prices compare favorably with prices preced- ing the depression and it is only an indication of the demand for the prop- er type of wagon horsesâ€"Shelburne Free Press and Economist. 09,000. At a special meeting of the council Thursday last it we: determin- edmdrewuanstoglandsandprop- eniestobewldfortaxesandua lust resort, sell these should the own- ers default payment of taxesâ€"Kinca- mum A wanna is being made of business peeplcundothercimenstoputupa bandstand. musinnhuhubeen mademputting upsplatformlnthe aqmrebehmdthetowhhallwmhwm becompletedunruthemndswm so and concertawilIbegiventhere weeklyduflngthemmmerâ€"Junehly, August and Samanthaâ€"Mount Forest wmmumm Every possible extol-twmbemadeby thetowncouncntooomctthetaxesin arrears, which now amount to almost Odd Fellows Attend Church The officers and members of Gordon Lodge No. 247, I. O. 0. FE, and Britan- nia Rebekah No. 215, together with the members of visiting lodges from Har- riston. Drayton, Arthur and Listowel, held their annual church service in St. Paul’s Anglican church on Sunday ev- ening, May 29, at 7 o’clock. Special pews in the front of the church had been reserved for the members of the lodges and the church was filled to capacity by members of the congrega- tion and visitorsâ€"Palmerston Specta- tor. Rearrange Division Centres As an economy measure, Commis- sioner James Bay, O.B.E., Canadian head of the Salvation Army, is making extensive rearrangement of divisional centres, and London Division will be, extended to take in Windsor territory. ' Several of the northern corps 01 the London Division, including Listowel, Palmerston, Wingham, Mount Forest and Hanover, are to be attached to the was set for July 21.â€"K1ncardine 19c The work on the construction or the highway from Palmerston to Listowel is progressing rapidly. The cement is now laid south from the Palmerston turn as far as the construction camp. The work is now commencing at the northerly limits of the town of Lis- towel and still proceed north until the roadway is joined with the cement now laid. The contractor expects to finish this stretch of road in 5 or 6 weeks. The highway from Listowel to Palm- erston is closed to traffic. A detour has been provided one sideroad east of Lis- towel.â€"Listowel Standard. Over fifty representatives of the sur- rounding towns were in Collingwood on Wednesday and took part in the hydro conference held in the council cham- bers, the ’object of which was to find ways and means of getting a more sat- isfactory explanation of the ever in- creasing cost of power and to discuss the troubles of the various municipali- ties. The outcome of the conference was the formation of the Georgian Bay Municipal Association. It was a well conducted meeting and much informa- tion was gleaned of the cost of hydro in these nearby towns.â€"Collingw00d Enterprise. Hydro Meeting Bamilton Division. Simooe will also be placed with Hamiltonâ€"Llama Stand- Southampton, the defendant, may en- ter an appesl- from the judgment of Mr. Justice Garrow.â€"Walkerton Teles- Work on Highway Wt Ronald A. Burgess, a fisherman liv- ing in Southampton, whose right leg was fractured in two places when on January 1, last, he tell on a sidewalk in front of the Walker House in that town, was awarded damages in the ammmt of 81,000 at the non-jury sit- ting of the Supreme Court, here this Pickercl Fry Deposited at Meaford Tuesday afternoon two million pick- erel fry were sent up from the Govern- ment Hatcheries, at Collingwood. These were deposited in the Meaford fishing grounds, just outside the harbor, this being considered the best place for put- ting them. Mr. T. H. Randle was the sponsor of this deposit and he, with members of the exectuive of the Board of Trade, went out in Mr. William Braithwaite’s boat to meet the Govern- ment tug. The arrangements were in charge of Mr. Edgar Brown. Pickerel put in her two years ago are now be- ginning to be caught by hook and line in the harbor, and Meaford is to be congratulated on getting such a large consignment at this time.â€"-Meaford Express. Rubber ,Plant Has Support Violating P. 0. Regulations Numerous instances of the irregu-t iar use of mail boxes on rural routes have been brought to the attention of the Post Office Department recently. These consist of the placing of circular letters and other matter in these boxes by persons other than the courier. Post- masters have therefore been instructed 'to warn the public of the seriousness of this offence and to instruct the pub- Llic that no persons are to have access to these mail boxes except those au- ,thorizedâ€"that is couriers and the own- ers of the boxes. Any matter placed in rural boxes intended for the owner gmust first have passed through the lo- ical post office and have the mower {amount of postage thereon. Couriers iare instructed to collect all matter found in these mail receptacles and ,bring some to their post offloe.-Mild- ,‘may Gazette. That the Baldwin Rubber company has a good chance for success and that the ratepayers of this town will not be making a mistake by ratifying the preposed agreement at the polls tomorâ€" row has been the unanimous opinion of members of the town council and the Baord of Trade. 0f more than 400 ratepayers that attended the meeting this week at the TudhOpe Carriage Factory here only one spoke entirely against the plan when Chairman Robert Curran asked tax-payers for Opinions. The lone ob- jection was voiced by Mr. Frank Prose ser, who kept the audience amused af- ter an evening of addresses in which the prOposed agreement was explained in detail.â€"Orillia News-Letter. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Everything in Medicine for man or beast Rennie’s. Jumbo and American and British interests have a billion dollar investment in Chile which may be affected adversely by the socialistic plans of the new govern- ment. at the Ottawa Imperial economic con- frenc. The announcement said names of the delegates would not be revealed until the Government received acknow- ledgment of its cable informing the Canadian Government of the appoint- ments. ' ‘ Asnguestotmmeuinistern. B. Bennett, Lord navel-brook paid a fly- ingvisittoOttawnonedayhstweek. The British peer was in Ottawa for onlyntew hmn'snndneulynnthnt timewnsspentwiththePrimeMmis- ter. Lord Beaverbrook lett early in the evening. societion of Eastwood Park United church. It was described as the “waist- line tea party,” and everyone paid ac- cording to her waistlinelthe maximum charge being 30 cents. The tea and con- cert was in aid of relief. More than 400 persons were reported dead or injured as a result of severe earthquakes that shook Mexico Friday. Something ot an innovation in tea parties was staged at. Long Branch last week, by members of the Women’s As- The Irish Free State Government on Sunday announced it had appointed delegates to represent the Free State Amelia Earhart Putngm last week through many numbers. Continuing its upward march, the National Socialist party of Adolf Hitâ€" ler was notably successful Sunday in the election of a new Diet for the State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Fascist Nazis increased the num- ber of their seats in the Diet from two in 1929 to 29 Sunday, or just one-half of the 58 seats filled by the election. Through brush sucked dry of mois- ure by a flaming sun. fires which burst forth wildly more than three weeks ago Three members of a family, the mother and two small children, were drowned and the husband was saved last Sunday in the second triple drown- ing tragedy at Kingston in two weeks. are still making slow but steady pro- gress, an airplane survey of the North- em Quebec mining district showed at the week~end. More than 300 men are constantly on watch to prevent the flames getting out of control. The lar- gest blaze is at Flavrian Lake, about 14 miles from Rouyn. The dead are: Mrs. Evelyn Veley, aged 18 years: Edna Veley. aged 2 years, and Ruth Pauline Veley, aged 2 weeks. Hiram Veley, 20, was saved. The Veley family had gone to Bell‘s Island. a small island in the Rideau, about a mile from where the party set out, and for years a favOrite picnic spot for many. As evening came it was seen that a storm was brewing, and the family started back to Kingston. When their boat was about half a mile from shore a terrific squall came up, so severe that in an instant waves were lashing up on to the docks, and the boat. a small flat-bottomed punt, was capsized. The Silver Centre branch of the T. and N. 0. Railway, which has been in Operation for about seven years and a half, is to be closed to regular traffic at the end of the present week, and the Saturday train, which has been the only scheduled service for some time sion has been expected for some time' past, owing to steadily dwindling traf- fic on the branch. After being lost all night, Mrs. Cath- arine Maniceck of Centreville (near Kitchener) was found on the edge of a thick bush one mile from her home at ten o’clock Saturday morning. She was found by Provincial Constable Mc- Coy, Constables Wldmeyer and Fergus- on and several farmers who had spent the greater part of the night looking for her. The trustees of the Clinton Caller iate Institute have made a start to- wards relieving the burden of the rate- humus-mm Win-thew”. News in Brief on Saturday attemoon. Governor Ruby wtoon of Kentucky granted a. full pardon last week to Heat. Thomas H. We, who was con- victed of shying Joe mum in mums (uncut “hone: murder cue." The governor's pardon restated to the rights he had (elicited by his churchinllaltacamelaatl'ridaywith an unreserved apology by Lord Strick- 1and.Primemnister.totheBiahopsot Malta for his antagonism towards the authority of the church. When two automobiles, one driven by Michael Laws of Goderich and the oth- er by J. Davis of Blyth, sideswiped on the Bayfleld Road four miles south of Goderich last Thursday, both turned over four {wheels up, while one, that of Laws, caught fire and was destroyed. The six occupants of the two cars all escaped without so much as a scratch. Those in the burned car did not have time“ to save their belongings. missing as torrential rains euly last lying sections of Oklahoma City. The flooded area included the Community Camp, peopled by hundreds of unem- played. The King ate his 67th birthday lun- cheon last Friday in the grandstand at the racetrack at Epsom Downs, where he viewed the running of the Oaks. classic for 3-year-old fillies. The Queen and several other members of the Roy- al family were there with him to see the races today. His Majesty was flood- ed with messages of congratulations from all over the world. The body of Wliiiam Boven, killed June 2 by police, who said they caught him robbing a filling station, was bur- ied in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Peru, Indiana, on Tuesday. The body was claimed by his mother, from Wind- Adrmnucendtothelongdisputc At two THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE wfiich him; at giving every dcpoaitor courteous and careful attention. NCOURAGEMENT. through a service which receives throughout the Dominion, ds in and day out, thousands of on deposits, large and small, and oor.0nt.BavenhuboenldenMedby $120,000 mu! mm {our 1 Oven-topping its mutuels tom of e yea- ago by $138118, Mellie reoe mumsyeerreechedetotuot C1.- man for the even any: of its 8pm: meet end exceeded the W’s toâ€" tal of “NJ". to the mun-.1 conference at Gen-ulna are marshals which opened u Ottawa Motion picture Willem ”W “at“! MIN-tot my clusof WyhmmnncmMuc- cordmgtouurepatotJ.amBmlth, Ninth annual Quebec and Ontario conference of Typographlcal Unions will be held at London, Ont... June 27 and 28. it was announced at Montreal Monday. Two delegates from Montreal will represent the French and Engllsh sections. The American Hotel, at Blind River. is in ruins following the explosion of a hot water tank Sunday. Four persons normwly escaped injury in the explo- sion. Damage is estimated at 015.000. The world’s mm speed moon-d was awn broken Mondey by the Great Western Bunny's Imam-Cheltenhem met. With seven coaches. 340 tons. the engine tnvelled the 77% miles from Swindon to London. mum; in 56 minutes and 47 seconds. :11 avenge speed of 81.6 miles en hour. The high- est rate reached was 92 miles an hour. Piczkaninnyâ€"“Look here. mummy. at. de holes in dis here piece of wood. What does you ’spect dem is for?" The Canadian Government will ex- tend the date at which the ave-cent-a- bushel bonus of wheat expires from June 15 to June 30. This was intimated in official circles at Ottawa Monday. Aunt Elvinâ€"“Why. honey dem’s be button holes what de branches is fas- tcned on to de trees." My, 1-: O. 1082

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