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week, by N. W. Banks, American checker champion. Checker enthusiasts were present from Coilingwood, Mark- daie, Fiesherton, Dundaik and other points. Mr. Banks played in the neigh- bourhood oi riiteen others at one time, winning all the games. He then was biindiolded and played six others at one time, the best any at his opponents managed being a draw. One of the op- ponents Mr. Banks scored over was a former Ontario champion.â€"Shelburne Free Press and Economist. Aiter travelling 147 ieet and showing skid marks some oi the distance a Durant car driven by William Lyster oi Oakville took to the ditch on the south side oi the road a little west of the Cookstown Creamery at noon Tues- day and ran over a clump of willow trees, uprooting some of them. Car Goes In Ditch that a truck was turning to back up to the door oi the creamery and turn- ing out to avoid it he came so nearly going into the ditch on the north side oi the road that his car was forced over to the other side. He could not Quite a bit of interest was taken by checker players in the exhibition given in Sheiburne, Tuesday night of last There will likely be a court action. The nets meantime are under seizure by the inspectors.â€"Meaxord Mirror. The Checker Champion The government nah induction boot mama and government inspectors here Tuesday seized two sets of nets which they alleged were within the 3- mfle limit and were in waters prohibit- ed tram net fishing. Both sets were put PAGE 2 only partly in prohibited waters, it is c. P. a. nexus TO ANY PAN at THE WORLD sPEGIAL RATES In Other Communities Who-WA” MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS mm. McFADDEN’S RUG STORE 3:313:13“ at Lowest prices C.P.R. Tuckels- Week-end main and Return $4.25 man or beast Ontario’s Record for 1931! 77 Deaths and 1025 Persons Injured In Motor Vehicle Accidents in the Month of August, Alone! Are YOU doing YOUR share to elim- inate this needless human sacrificeâ€" are you helping to make SAFE the Streets and Highways of our Province? Full Stock of Creams, PowdfiglKodaks, Films, Thermos, etc. Ontario’s record for August. 1032, is being written daily by the men and women who drive motor vehicles -â€" and by pedestrians. LEOPOLD LIACAULAY Bfinistef NEW 15c TOILET L“! LINE (Orange Blossom) “ION TIME who will be Narrowly Escaped Drowning Had it not been for the timely ac- tion of two boys, the Saugeen River as it flows past the Bend, on the nor- thern outskirts of Walkerton, in all probability would have been the scene of a drowning at about 2.45 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. For those unable to swim this stretch of water is dan- gerous, many believe. Meaiord company did some splen- did shooting in getting the Cleland tro- phy. Jack Morris shot 114 out of a pos- sible 115. Certainly Major Lewis and the Meatord Company are to be con- gratulated on their splendid work.â€" Meaford Mirror. Christina Siegfried, about 18 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Siegfried, town, was the girl who had the harrowing experience. Tony Caruso, who went to her res- cue, was almost exhausted and sink- ing when Ralph VanderBurgh pushed out a raft upon which they were hauled, and spectators state that had not Ralph acted quickly a most distress- ing occurrenceâ€"the possibility of a double drowningâ€"might have resulted. -â€"Walkerton Telesc0pe. is a remarkable showing. Owen Sound Company had only one in the crew. ~' Did Well at Camp- Meaford Company of the Grey Regi- ment made a record at the recent camp at Orillia. They brought home the Rutherford trophy for general eflicien- cy and the Cleland trophy for musket- ry. This was a splendid accomplish- ment, reflecting credit on the oflicers, N.C. 0’s. and men. When it came to choosing a machine gun section out of the brigade the Meaiord Company was again on top. 0! the crew of five, four were from the Meaford Company which my whether he had applied the brakes but the skid marks though nearly ob- literated by traflic a half hour later showed that he had attempted‘ to star! the ctr by using the brakesâ€"Alliston Herald. Visited James Bay Port Dr. F. M. Walker and son Albert iwas only partially locked, having been placed there to handle the purchase of some cattle in the morning. This ;cash was in a tin receptacle in the lbody of the safe. while the robber missed $170 more in cash which re- posed in a locked compartment. Un- ider the circumstances it is confident- The charge facing Burgess is that he did commit perjury at the sittings of the Supreme Court of Ontario, held in Walkerton before Mr. Justice Gar- row, “by swearing that he did not fall at or on the step of the doorway open- ing from the Walker House onto High Street, but that he did fall and inâ€" jure his leg at and by reason of a cer- tain crack in the sidewalk on High Street at a point some distance from the step aforesaid, knowing such evi- dence to be false and the same being given with intent to mislead the court. â€"Wa1kerton Telesc0pe. Burgess was plaintiff in an action against the Town of Southampton, claiming damages for injuries sus- tained when he fell last New Year’s day in that municipality, breaking his right leg in two places. Mr. Justice Garrow awarded him 31, 000 damages, but the Town of Southampton, through its counsel, Mr. O. E. Klein, K..C, moved to have this judgment set aside or to have a new trial granted on the ground that Burgess perjured himself. Sometime during the early hours of Wednesday morning last a thief en- tered the butcher shop of Messrs. Rutâ€" ledge Small, Main street, and made off with about $80 in cash. As far as investigation could disclose, the mar- auder first attempted entry by cumb- ing over the roof of the rear lean-to and gaining access to the floor above the shop. Apparently his nerve failed him when a sheer drOp through a cell- ing trap-door to the floor below was faced. Returning to the ground, the robber removed the back screen door and forced Open the bolted door be- yond, which led into the shop. The money was stolen from the safe, which eslde north and at Cochrane left the car and boarded a train for Moosonee, the northern terminal of the T. a: NO. railway. For miles north of Cochrane the road runs through a dense forest of spruce which gradually grows small- er until it becomes a mere scrub and finally the country is a muskeg with frost two feet under the surface all summer. Moosonee is ten miles inland from James Bay and the river will have to be dredged to admit vessels. Dr. Walker was taken by motor boat to Moose Factory, the old fort estab- lished long before the U. E. Loyalists settled in Ontario, where he saw what remains of the ancient glory of the fur trade when the British and the French fought for the riches of the North American forests.â€"â€"Alliston Her- ald. Butcher Shop Robbed Road Opened The recently paved portion of the Palmerston-Listowel highway was op- ened for traffic Saturday. Although trafiic of all kind is permitted the road is not completed. Work is still proceed- ing on the shouldering but it is ex- pected that this will be concluded be- fore next week is over. reached home Monday evening after a trip into Northern Ontario right up to James Bay. They left here the 22nd of July and drove to Hamilton. The fol- lows day they drove into the pictur- No word has been received regard- ing an official opening which will prob- ably be made the occasion of a gala event in Listowel. Paving on Highway No. 23 is now complete except between Listowel and Atwood, a distance of about five miles. Hopes were held out that this would be paved this summer, but the refusal of the Department of Highways to defer Perth County’s share of the cost for a year longer than the usual time, stOpped the plan. On a warrant issued on July 12, charging perjury when giving evidence at a sitting of the Supreme Court in Walkerton last May, Ronald A. Bur- gess, of Southampton, was arrested in Sandwich last Thursday. Faces Perjury Charge The Duflerin Construction Company had the contract for the paving and their work now stretches from Teviot- dale to Listowel. All the pit machinery and huts located on the Listowel road are still in position and it is expected that this company hope to obtain the contract for the Listowel-Atwood stretch next year.â€"Palmerston Specta- tor. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE The inlaying was done by James Kennedy, Vancouver. Mr. Kennedy cut out a picture of Hen No. 6 from a news- paper, and c0pied it. in inlaid wood. Libby Holman, exotic singer of “torch songs,” came back to Winston Salem to fight charges that she brought about the death of the young sire of the Reynolds family, her husband. Smith Reynolds, Jr. Accepted as a good augury for the season’s Western wheat output, the first car of new wheat inspected on Canadian Pacific tracks in Winnipeg Saturday by the Western Division, Board of Grain Commissioners graded No. 1 Northern and weighed 63 pounds to the bushel, three pounds over stand- ard weight. Twice unsuccessful in transatlantic flight, Stanislaus Hausner, Polish-Am- erican flier, will try it againâ€"this time from Chicago to Poland. The aviator announced he would take off within the next two months. Whether the flight would be non-stop or call for re- fueling at New York, he said, depends on the gasoline capacity of his new plane. James Ruben, Hamilton, committed suicide Saturday night at Niagara Falls in full view of hundreds of tourists, by walking into the Horseshoe Falls near Table Rock. Having laid her way to world fame, Hen No. 6, from the University of British Columbia farm, has now been “inlaid” for the benefit of posterity. Rendered tinder-like by the scorch- ing sunshine, 5,000,000 feet of lumber were completely destroyed by fire which started late Saturday afternoon and engaged the Timmins fire department for hours before it finally burned out. Sir Arthur Keith. Four of the skele- tons are well preserved. With them were found 8,000 flint tools and flakes of the Mousterian period. Arrangements are being made to re- move some 300 Doukhobors, men and women, held at. Oakalla and Nelson jails, British Columbia, under sentences of three years’ imprisonment for par- ticipating in nude parades. A gallant attempt as rescue by Frank Stewart, 791 Manning Avenue, Toron- to, proved unavailing, and Stewart went out so far that he himself was in danger of losing his life. Slight change was reported Sunday in the condition of Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur W Marsh of Amherstburg, injur- ed late Saturday in an auto crash at Amer, on No. 18 Highway. Hopes are now entertained for the recovery of Mrs. Marsh. Damage was placed at $150,000 by officials of the Flesherton Lumber Company, owners of the lumber yard. Mrs. Mary Callaghan of Melrose, near Belleville, died in her 99th year Monday morning. Born in Marysville, she was prominent in church life, and was one of the oldest women of the province. After being idle for nearly one year, the rail saw in the Canadian National Railways’ yard at Belleville has re- sumed operations, and 55 men were taken on Monday. John B. Colgrove, 67-year-old presi- dent of a defunct Taylorville bank, staggered into Springfield Sunday af- ter being kidnapped, beaten, bound and gagged and left in a field of weeds to die. Eight skeletons of “Natufians”,” pre- historic Palestinians. which members of the Anglo-'American expedition ex- cavating at Athlit, Jerusalem, assert in- dicate a new genus, have been shipped to London for study at the Royal Col- lege of Surgeons under the direction of Six men were burned to death when fire broke out in the Maywood Hotel at Waukegan, 111., on Sunday. Rolland L. Rideout, arrested at Buf- falo several weeks ago and wanted in Canada in connection with the rob- bery of three banks, was Started on his journey to Winnipeg Monday in custody of two officers of the R.C.M.P. 1y believed that the guilty .one was well acquainted with the habits of these two business men and was well aware of the unusual amount of cash in the safe, also with the fact that the sale could be opened with a slight turn of the dial. Provincial. Constable Butler has been making oflicial investigation. 'â€"Shelburne Free Press and Economist. In the excavation for a new lake in connection with the landscape project at the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph. Interesting Happening: Briefly Outlined {or the Buy W News in Brief inmetes engaged in the work heve un- earthed many interesting relics of the early days in that district. These in- clude sever-s1 pairs of antlers of deer. One in particular is a splendid speci- men with skull and antlers complete, which has been mounted and placed in one of [the retorrnntory onioes. Percy C. Palmer. tretsurer of Hotel Norton Palmer. at Windsor. died late Monday at his home in Highland curred at 2 am. when smoke was found coming from the centre of the business section of Grimsby’s Main street. Smashing their way through a front entrance to John McDermid’s tobacco store on Woolwich street, Guelph, ear- ly Monday, burglars looted the cash register of $60 and made their escape. Joint charges of murder were filed Monday at Natchez, Miss, against Miss Octavia Dockery, 60, daughter of a Confederate general, and Dick Dana, 61, bearded eccentric and nephew of Charles A. Dana, the great journalist, in connection with the slaying of Miss Surget Merrill, 72-year-old recluse and one-time “belle of the Old South." Conrad Butter, of Baden, arrested several days ago after passing worth- less cheques, was on Monday sentenced to five years in Portsmouth peniten- tiary on each of the five charges of forgery, the terms to run concurrently. Her husband’s reported prejudice against the medical profession prompt- ed a police probe Monday at London, into the death of Mrs. Cecelia Dock- stader, 32â€"year-old Muncey Indian wo- man, who died Saturday at the re- serve. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Steele of Ferndale, Mich., and Miss Jessie Scott of Buffalo, N.Y., are in Hotel Dieu Hospital at Windsor, as a result of an auto accident near Tilbury Mon- day night. Registered on police files as Cecelia Myrtle Berner, but charged under the name of Rose Young, 27, a woman ap- peared in Windsor police court on Monday and pleaded guilty to being married when she went through a mar- riage ceremony with another man. Twenty-one days in jail and five lashes was the punishment which Mag- istrate S. B. Arnold, Monday ordered for Clarence Van Dusen, 23, colored, in Chatham, when he pleaded guilty in City Polloe Court to a charge of as- saulting his wife. Provincial Constable Embleton and Chief Constable de Mine are investigat- ing a series of robberies which occurr- The fire marshil‘s department will on Grimsby’s main street Monday LONG-Tm COCKS OF JAPAN The first of this unusually ornunen- talspeciesmruiedaboutflOyeu's ago by a greet lover of birds who cue- tully selected the birds procured by crossing the ordinary barnyard chicken with copper and green pheesents and ’0ther birds. The tail feathers W :from five or six unusually large and ’strong quills that are never malted. but this long-desired result was not. obtained for some 240 years. After seven years of experiments in crossing the birds with White Leghorns tail feathers were produced, in 1899. that do not Come out. The tail feathers may be rolled around one‘s hand without danger of breaking them end grow about two and one-half feet in the first year. up to six feet in the second and to nine feet or longer in the third year. In order to preserve the tail feath- ers the birds are kept on a shelf in a narrow box about four feet high with the feathers wound in coils in an ad- joining compartment. Every day the bird is taken out and allowed to walk about for half an hour or so while someone holds up the tail to prevent it from getting torn or soiled. Once a month the tail is carefully washed with warm water and as carefully dried while the bird perches on some high place, a roof or elsewhere, so that the tail can hang for its full length until quite dry. At present there are only a doaen birds of this SpECieS. In color they are black and white or pure white. but ex- periments are being made to produce birds that will be brown in color. III-*7. m 11. I”!