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g. The flywhzmmm 2324 m willbehe M on m North Ward, at the public llbrary, with Jon. firth, deputy returning om- eer and A. Plea-son poll clark; East Wd. Eat Melba-lane’s mop, with E. McDoInld Mum; Westward,atthetown hill. with Round mu md H. The board of health reported that the health of the town was in good condi- Jilll. During the year there had been M1.hsandaldeeths wcuesof lea md one oi scarlet fever. The necessary bylaw for the holding of the nominations and election was peeled and the following ofllciola and places of voting nuned: willing to conform strictly to oflicel hours it necessary but could not be ex- ; pectedtobeonduty atother timesJIisg explanatiOn was accepted. A letter was on the table from the agricultural representative regarding a short course in domestic science to be held here from January 30 to February. 24. There would be from 60 to 90 in at- tendance and the council was expected to furnish accommodation. The clerk was instructed to write Mr. COOper that the council would co-operate. The matter of a local resident having obtained relief to which he was not le- sally entitled was settled by council askincthismantosisnanorder for payment or the amount, to be taken 01! his pay. Robert Campbell wanted: to know why the clerk was not at the weigh scales at 8 o’clock in the morning. He had to wait there to get coal weighed. The clerk said he did not run his oflice on hours altogether and never retused to be at the scales before 8 o’clock or after 5 if there was any weighing to be done. Usually coal was not weighed un- til after 8.30 and had Mr. Campbell told him he would have been there. He was and not being required to pay the li- cense tee of 810 per day. The clerk had reported that the bylaw did not cover manufacturers agents, but a letter from the Retail Merchants’ Association said the tee could be collected. Who was right? He cited the case or a man who was allowed to operate here and was later arrested at Barrie and fined $100. The council promised to look into the matter and see that the necessary fee was paid. D. M. Saunders wanted to know what the council intended doing regarding outsiders selling merchandise in town R. L. Saunders and T. M. McFadden were the spokesmen for the merchants in the interests of the Christmas tree proposition. Graham is to notmy the county clerk of the circumstances. Mr. J. B. Dumeld who handled the assets of the patient testified that 36 far as he knew there were no further funds. Smith were a delegation from the Red Goes hospital regarding a patient whose flmds are exhausted. He was a former prOperty owner here, was taken ill, and was at present indebted to the hospital for a considerable sum. There With the council, the merchants, and Deuchtera o! the Empire, members of the Red moss, and the citilens in gen- eral behind the movement, it is sure to he a succeu. This year, more than ever before, Durham is to have a Christmas}! appearance. For the whole length of themainbusineustteetitisplanned to have rows of evergreens and colored lights during the last week, and with the community tree at the main corner the town should present a most gala appearance. . It was the last meeting of the year. excepting the statutory. December 15 meeting, and it was a fairly busy ses- nkht granted .25 toward the expenses. The'treeiatobeacanmnnityone in that peeparations are under way for en- tertaining between soo and 1,000 child- m on Saturday afternoon, the 17th inst., when a real live Santa Claus will dispense cheer to the children of Dur- ham and the surrounding territory. No boundary limits have been set, and so far as distance is oonoemed,_“the lidi Durham to‘m council ten in with the unity of the citizens to hnve a com- nimity Christmas Tree this yen and at their mum- meeting on Monday mmmmrwn- VOL. 66.â€"NO. 3414 MMWMM- «unwind-gunman a, but. Mr. An outbreak of scarlet fever in Egre- mont caused anxiety on the part of some or the residents of Egremont two or three weeks ago, so much, that a res- ident is said to have telephoned in to Dr. Fraser, the District 31.03., Guelph. Dr. Fraser came up last week and paid a visit to No. 12 section, made his in- vestigation, and said there was nothing outotorduortobeworfledatmxtfie found everything in good shape and the local board handling the outbreak in a ' Warning that the grasshopper pest :in the prairie provinces will be worse :next year than it was last Summer, was voiced last week by Norman Crid- die. of the Entomological Labratory, Treesbank, Manitoba, who was in Ot- tawa. attending the annual convention ’of the Entomological Society of Ontario. I Mr. Griddle charactermes the combat iwaged against the insects last Sum- 'mer as “the ' biggest battle ever waged in Western Canada." Between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000 had been saved to the country as a re- sult of the conflict, and 20,000,000 bush- els of wheat had been saved from the ravages of the pests. At present in the prairie provinces there were 150 grasshopper eggs to the square foot in some places, Mr. Griddle said, predicting that next Summer the SCARLET FEVER SCARE CAUSED ANXIETY IN EGBEMONT "Even the wars with the Indians cannot compare with it," he added. He was of the opinion that business in Canada had begun to show improve- ment about June last. and that it would steadily continue to do so. The coming Winter might be a hard one, however, since many people were now beginning to reach the end of their resources. 80 even though conditions might be re- turning to normal, there might be a temporary period of intense difficulty. """I Mr. Browning states he is getting alongf air and was back in the hos- PEST 0F GRASSHOPPERS $139312?Xée‘iighilii‘iiffii‘lii’fi; To BE WORSE IN 1933 some infection. After the new year he is to go into hospital again for bone ' i 1 Warning Given by Entomologist wno! gm“ Whit?“ he says Will lkely gve him a “fairly good leg’. He reports the Fought Posts Last 8 ' ’other members of the family in good . L“ LL WML ghealth. Asked if there was any prospect of this country going off the gold stand- ard, Mr. Rhodes contended that Can- ada was not on the gold standard, and had not been for months. "No country today, can live unto it- self alone," he said. “I belief it was an effort to do that which paved the way for the world economic reverses.” pared to yield up old fiscal autonomy and to surrender control at a time when financial stability is pre-eminently es- sential to world recovery?” he asked. ' If the dollar were brought to parity with the pound. Mr. Rhodes estimated that $150,000,000 would be added to what Canada has to pay on obligations; maturing in New York within the next year. He doubted if the taxpayers could stand this additional strain. so alluring, and the idea has found favor to such an extent, that there are those who would link our dollar with the pound sterling.. Assuming such a “Inflation might. have stimulating eflect, but its results would not endure. And. like every other stimulant,‘ its after effects would be disastrous. In- flation has been resorted to before, and history has told the story of its fail; ure." the Minister said. debts, and he believed that the sooner steps were taken which would allow far a freer movement of trade and a return to normality in that quarter, the better it would be for all concerned. No lasting benefits to this country would come of currency inflation, he Mr. Rhodes was .commenting in an interview on the debt inflation pro- posals. In the evening he addressed the Ontario Commercial Travellers’ As- sociation at the annunl banquet. other nation, was the opinion expres- sed at London, Ontario, Friday, by Hon. ingeflectuponCamdauwelluevery HONEY INFLATION III" TEMPORARY BENEFIT L N. 3110608. Federal Minister 01 Pin- ‘6 ”MSWHQM wardebtnoteto orders from relief department, he said. the food was changed from common sugar, which is considerably ché’aper. Strangulation almost resulted, and an operation was performed during which it was found necessary to remove 'cer- tain vital organs. The physicians claimed that, had the baby been allowed to continue on the prescribed road, the injury might o‘er have occurred. - sugar for an infant suflering from rupture and “infant intoxication." On St. Thomasâ€"Serious ’charges were made by representatives of ‘ the medical profession before the city’s relief com- rnittee recently, that an infant girl will never enjoy the happiness of full womanhood because she was deprived of a certain expensive type of feeding by the city’s relief department. ECONOMY BLAMED AS BABY SUFFERS Mr. Browning’s injuries could scarcely be described by pen picture, and for some time after his injuries when vis- ited. by the writer, his leg was in a. ter- rible condition. It is a tribute to pres- ent-day surgery that Mr. Browning’s leg was saved at all and we are pleased to know that his chances for recovery are so good. It will be remembered that ML! Browning, an employe of the Toronto:' Transportation Commission, met with serious injuries a year ago when run into by a motorist while at his duty on the street car tracks of the city. He was a patient in the Toronto Gen-' eral Hospital for some months. but has i of late been at his home at 134,119.15? vie Avenue. I A special committee is investigating. pecaed to have further improvement in his injured leg after a bone graft that will be performed aftfer the new year. We reoéived a letter today from Mr. William R. Browning of Toronto, for- merly of Durham, stating that he ex- IMPROVEMENT EXPECTED ' FROM BONE CRAFT Junior series, Group llâ€"Palmerston, Durham, Owen Sound, Walkerton. Con- vener, Chas. Pratt, Owen Sound. Meet at Durham. erton, Durham, Owen Sound, W1 Convener, W. J. McGirr, Durham at Durham. abeyance. Tuesday’s daily papers carried the groupings as announced by the 011A. and those affecting Durham are as fol- lows: \ Intermediate series, Group lSâ€"Walk- It was decided to enter teams in the intermediate and junior series of the O.H.A., and the secretary was instruct- ed to try,to secure a southern grouping if possible. Teams will also be entered in the senior and junior Northern ser- ies but as no notification of entry dates had been received this was left in Executive Committee, Royden Burnett- Erben (Duke) Schutz and Bert McDon- ald; Manager and coach for the inter- mediates, R. L._8aunders. published at the close or the last' seas- on, the treasurer’s report was dispensed with and the following officers elected: both O.H.A. and Northern series. As a full and complete statement of At a rather well attended meeting, held in J. N. Murdoch’s office last m- dey night, the Durham Hockey Club gotawaytoagoodstartmrtheoomlng -‘- Condition Is Wt, But Further Im- provement Expected From Treatment . M86t Saturday Monday TEMPERATURES FOE PAST WEEE 8a.m.Max. Min. Snow of the province interested in temper- ance.” “Here is an issue on which we can unite the temperance sentiment of the province,” said Dr. Irwin. speaking of the petition which is to be circulated. “If there is not some expression of pub- lic opinion, this will be a question at the next election, which would be a serious mistake. If we do this we will silence for'the time being the breweries interests and the Moderation League and keep this out of politics. “We owe it to the Premier to stand behind him. We are fighting against a[ traflic that is deeply rooted, and we' must get more of the thinking people “Here is a great big commercial in- terest with certain financial objectives ahead," said the speaker,,' again refer- ring to the breweries. “They are able to stand up in“ the face of the prem- ier and say: ‘We want what we want and we are going to get it.’ " Stating that Canada had a fine stock and hoped to produce a fine people, Dr. Irwin said the health of the nationl would be affected by drinking. He said that. there had been a busi- ness amalgamation of nine breweries at present with one man in power. “This is the third effort of the brew- ery interests of Ontario to break through,” said Dr. Irwin, with refer- ence to the present effort to establish beer by the bottle in hotels. restau- rants and clubs. Rev. A. J. Irwin. general secretary of the Ontario Prohibition Union, spoke of the growing interest in the province among people for temperance. He said that there was practically complete ab- sence of aggression except in politics or‘trade interests. Definite opinion was expressed by the speakers that the question must be kept out of politics. Temperance workers of the province, it was indi- cated, felt that a proposal was under way, promoted by the Moderation League and brewery interests, to have such a measure introduced into par- liament. I In an effort to organize public opin- ion against the sale of beer and light wines by the open bottle in restau- rants, hotels, and clubs, the' Ontario Prohibition Union held a special meet- ing in London, with afternoon and ev- ening sessions. ban'k staff identified the two men at police headquarters as the two gunmen who had held them up and forced them into the bank vault. DRY LEADER SEES LIQUOR DICTATOR The arrest of the men was brought about on information secured by Tor- onto detectives who immediately noti- fied Inspector Miller. The charge was laiq last Friday when members of the ' Arrested at Toronto last Friday“ the men who robbed the Flasherton branch of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce on November 28 of $6,352, John M. Burlie, 30, and John O’Brien, 30, both of Ontario street, Toronto, left that city at 3.45 pm. Friday by motor for Owen Sound. They were remanded :put up a good defence at Owen Sound. claiming that an alibi would be oflered for the consideration of the court by which they would seek to prove that they were in Toronto on the day of the F'lesherton hold-up. The men were in charge of Inspector John Miller of the provincial police, and Detective-Sargeant P. Hogan. The information laid against them is as follows: “That John O’Brien and John Michael Burlie, did unlawfully, being armed with offensive weapons, to wit pistols, rob E. A. Preston and others, of $6,352, the property of the Bank of Advocates Convene Bank Raid Suspects ' In Owen Sound Jail WIoerbâ€"MkndtoBe mmwmmm ,9 Toronto Sat-thy 47 27 ‘1.70 1% works committee and see if he could pick him out. Taking the stand that the welfare of the city’s 47,000 unemployed and their claim upon snow 'shovelling jobs was of more importance than bolstering the prosperity of a company promoting mechanical snow cleaning and load- ing devices, the Toronto Board of Con- trol rejected the proposal of the repres- entative of such a company for the purchase or rental of one or more 014 the machines produced by his film. When the representative rem that a member of city council had Insured, him aeveral years ago that the city would purchase such'a machine. he was SNOW CLEANING MACHINE REJECTED TO GIVE JOBS rice, James and Murray, and Olga, all at. home. His eldest son, George, was killed in a motor accident at Hamilton four years ago. He is survived also by two brothers and two sisters, Messrs. Samuel and John C. Wright, Hamilton, Mrs. McCue, Kincardine. and Mrs. John I Bryon of Durham. Mrs. Bryon left yes- I terdaS' afternoon to be present at the funeral. Interment will be at Hamilton] ilton, where, with his brothers, he has been engaged in brick-making. He is survived by his widow, four sons and one daughter, Sydney. Mau- Kincardine, where they ran the brick- yard there for a number of years. For the past'few years he-has lived at Ham- ‘ WILLIAM WRIGHT Mr. William Wright, formerly of Durham, died at his home at Hamilton on Tuesday of this week, in his 53rd year. Outside the announcement'of his death, we have no particulars of his illness. ‘ The late Mr. Wright was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wright of Durham. He was born in Bentinck near Hutton Hill and received his early edu- cation at the Hutton Hill school. With his father and brothers he was encas- ed in the brick making business here. and left Durham about 25 years ago for The new super-crap exhibitor rule, barring entrants from the Internation- al Hay and Grain Show who have won three grand championships. such as Herman Trelle, Wembley, Alta” for a period of three years, applies co crops having two or more varieties. Wheat, oats. and barley, with their various types, come under the new order, but such exhibits as rye do not. Blue-blooded entries of Alexander MacLaren, Buckingham, Quebec. in the milking shorthorn division of the Inter- national Livestock Expositlon. captumd a. total of 14 awards, including thr‘ee blue ribbons. Rabert McEwen, and Sons of Ion- don‘Ontario, captured the grand chun- pien ribbon for the best flock of South Down lambs in the sheep division. The contest which required a. flock of not. less than 50 sheep. was taken by the ‘McEwen entry on their remarkable uniformity and fleshing. Ind., who won the crown for the best corn in the show. It was his third prem- ier honor and he will be barred tm not, it was clearly stated, aimed at Can- adian entrants, but applies to all. in- cluding C. E. 'I‘royer of Latontalne, tendent of the show, stated it 13 £0 en- courage and give a new and green ex- hibitor a better chance to score in the bar Mrs. Mary E. Maycock of Milford, Ontario, who for three years has tn- nexed the blue ribbon for the champ- ion sample of beans with her navy ex- hibit. man Trelle. Wembley wheat king. 9. four-time champlon will not be able to compete in the winning wheat clas- ses again until 1936. and it will also whether he has had consecutive m; or the laurels spread over a number of min compete in the class In which he won the crown. titlon for three Under a new rule adopted by the management of the International my and Grain Show, Chicago, utter an ex- hibitor has won the hichest awnrd 0b- TRISH]! IS BARRED A'I' CHICAGO SHOW The new rule, despite the consiswnt ictories of Dominion exhibitors, is In announcing the adoption of the OBITUARY lave won such as 3., for a co craps Wheat, freer last Summer's Ottawa Ecgnomtc Oun- ference. he said. hid stated at freer trade for the sake of 31-min the do- minions and the valid in ma. He maintained the out“ Gunter- A-‘. LA ‘- curse of mtemttion‘x my The United Kingdom's (team to BALDWIN FAVORS MORE PROTECTION Througout the country there wns quite an upset in the diaerent councils. The later elections will be held on the first Monday in the new yen. The m by wards In Glenelg and Bentlnck are given in another column. ' tion it was conceded that Schwindt’s election was assured, and that of Grout doubtful. Walkerton’s election upset opinion of the experts when W. A. Bum defeated G. A. Schwindt. seeking hi fifth term, and Cunpbeli Grant we returned over Roy Robertson with 1 majority of 107. Previous to the elec' was defeated, a majority of cast for the present system. statesmen the system now 1:: council for 1932 :t least. m the final results, it looks tint. hid there of the township came second. blame Bailey, a councillor of some yum back. was a poor third. with Baht. Keenan. a newcomeri Stanley Baldwin, Mme lend- the field; the former winning "out by 113 majority. For Council. Had Tun-y. (Glenroadm), John mom and 8. B. Wright of the Hindu;- Wad. John McKechnie ('Pricevme). a, member at mfourthphceuxdoutotthe '. headed the pan, while .3. election upset opinions s when W. A. Bum 7. Previous to the elec- WIS dpfno to ". I. detected