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MRS. A. S. VANDCSEN: DfiRHAM CHRONICLE Dear Madamuâ€"At the regular meet- ing of Prince Arthur Lodge, No. 333, A. F. a: A. )1. held on Friday evening the 15th inst. a resolution was unani- mously adepted instructing the under- signed committee to convey to you the heart-felt sympathy of the lodge in the great bereavement which you have been called to pass through by the death of your beloved husband. WNW-WW Prince Arthur Lodge mourns with you because of the loss of a member and an officer so valued and so highly esteemed as was \Vorshipful Brother 'VanDusen. Who had filled with much honor to himself and the Craft the; highest positions in the gift of the lodge. \Ve mourn because we shall no more at our lodge meetings see his familiar face, hear his voice in words of Wise counsel and be helped by his true fraternal fellowship. But much as we feel our loss we are conscious it can be felt but in a small measure to that experienced by you as you V‘leW the vacant chair in your home and “sigh for the touch of the vanished handanda sound of a voice that is Therefore the deepest sympathy of] the lodge is herebv extended to you' and your family in the loss you have sustained and while earnestly praying the Most High to greatly comfort your sorrowing' hearts we would remind you of the consoling thought that :â€" “Death is but the gateway to a higher life, A life much broader than the one we see; I .A volume grand, rewritten and revised Of what we are and what we are to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wright of ‘ ‘Cedar Vlew Farm” celebrated in a. very pleasant manner their wooden ‘ wedding on Tuesday evening of last week. About forty guests were pres- ent among whom were Mrs. J. Foster, of=British Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. .788. finson ; Rev. L. F. and Mrs. Kipp, and Rev. G. 0. Little, at Flesherton. Lockets, Scarf Pins, Watch Fobs, Society Badges Etc., Etc. still." MacFaflane 61 00. DURHAM, NOVEMBER 28, 1907 On behalf of Prince Arthur Lodge: Druggists and Booksellers W IRWIN. Editor and Proprietor. In selecting our Stool; we have succeeding in getting pieces in get- ting pieces in which exquisite design is combined with best value. J. BLACLBURN, M. K. RICHARDSON, }Committee. T. A. BLAKELY. That’s why peeple who want something distinctive Ought to 001119 here for it. We want to show you flu.» latest designs in Rings, Brooches ets. Sleeve Studs, All above goods are fully guaranteed and may be exchanged anytime within five (.3) years if not -, of Corbetton ; Mr. and Mrs. A. satisfactory. Flesherton THE Mrs. Wright ieceived in her wedding dress and the house decorations were very pretty. A choice wedding dinner was served after which Rev. Mr. Little in a neat speech proposed the health of the host and hostess. With parlor games and music the evening was en- joyably spent, by the company. N u- merous presents were given in wooden- At a meeting of the Presbyterian congregation on Thursday evening last a. forward movement in behalf of Missions {was taken by organizing a. Missionery Association for the congre- gation in the work of which all mem- bersiand adherents will be invited to take part. The following officers were elected: Pres. Rev. G. 0. Little; 1st Vice Pres., J. F. Chard; 2nd Vice Pres., Mrs. J. L. McMullen; Sec., Chas. Stewart; Trea., Miss Eva Loucks: Finmmce Committee, J 05. E. McKee, T. R. McKenzie, Mrs. W. J- Stewart. Mrs. )‘chullen ; Programme Committee. Mrs. 1“. Fluker. Mrs. W. Bentham. Miss Celia. VanDusen. Mrs. Andrew Bentham was given a. pleasant: birthday celebration at; the home of her son \ 'ill and wife on Monday evening; of last: week. The estemnml lzuly’s family and friends are pleased to see her so restored to good health since undergoing :L critical Operation in the hospital. Mr. Andrew Gilchrist. whose foot was terribly mangled in the cylinder of :L threshing machine two months ago. is progressing very favorably. the injured member doing so well that good hopes are entertained for good use of it again. Mr. Gilchrist, who has borne his misfortune cheerfully, is deeply greatful to the kind neighbors by whom he is surrounded who have in the. most thoughtful and helpful manner lent; assistance on the farm. The Public School Board here de- cided last week to purchase a. new library for the school. T119 Presbyterian and Methodist, Sunday Schools are this week com- mencing practice for their annual en- tertainmentS(m Christmas and New Year’s evenings. The Baptist; School will hold their‘s early in January. The Baptist; church anniversary is to be on Sunday December 8th. when Rev. P, C. Cameron. B. D. of Owen Sound will preach morning and even- ing. A splendid entertainment, is to be given in the town hall the folh’nving' evcnhvn The Citizens. Band has secured the Swiss Bull Ringers for an entertain- ment in the town hall on Dec. 5th. The nmsicul Eckharts have had high- ly pleased audiences here before and we hope on this occasion to see them draw :1 crowded house for the Band. Mr. Fred Tucker has increased his tailoring business by adding gents’ furnishing to his stock of cloths. Miss W illison has been re-engaged for 1907 in the school at Rock Mills. Mr. \V. H. Bunt, who went through the Caledon wreck. came home with a. badly battered Christy hat in place of his own. Showing us the relic on Saturday, we observed that on a piece of a Thornbury newspaper folded un- der the inside band was written with pencil the name 0. Canimack, ‘who was probably the owner and a pas- senger on that ill fated train. But Where did he hail from ? Mrs. Frank Rennie, Toronto line, had a neat monument erected in the cemetery here on Saturday, to the memory of her late husband. Bornâ€"At Hannah, North Dakota, on Nov. 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bowler, a son. \Ve congratulate our townsman Mr. W. P. Crossley on his newly conferred title Grand-Pa. Bornâ€"At Ceylon on Friday last, to Mr. and Mrs. Alex McRae, twins. both boys. The infants lived only a, few hours and numerous friends sympa- thize with the parents in their loss. Mrs. Irwin, Stu, east of the Village, who has been an invalid the past year with a. broken thigh bone, had the misfortune to fall again la'st; week and sustain severe injuries. Mr. Alex )Iuir Reeve, of ArtemeSIa, l and wife were suddenly bereft of their; infant daughter, Margaret Esther, on Monday morning. Pneumonia was the cause of death. Interment was made at Priceville, on Tuesday. The little one was one year and nine months old. \Ve sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. Muir in their loss. Mr. John English, is opening axhouse accomodation for the public at Ceylon. He is building a new stable 40x60 for the accomodation of horses. A party of hunters from Owen Sound, spent; Monday in this vicinity. chaperoned by Andy Wilson. Thos. Davis, Robt. Brown, Alex English and a. number more young men have gone from this vicinity, to Parry Sound lumber camps. Mrs. Robt. Best was called to the city last week by the illness of her sister Mrs. Spence and niece Miss Irene Spence. The latter is not ex- pected to recover. Mrs. W. H. Bunt is vifiting at Wood- bridge. Mrs. VanDnsen is spending a. couple of weeks with her daughter at Calling- Miss Brigham. of Shélburne, iting the Misses Munshaw. E “And are you goin’ to close the i hotels so that we can neither get a ‘ bite to eat nor a bed to sleep on ?” was the question with which a good lady hailed me the other day. This question I wish to answer in this communication. g Of one thing we may be sure that if peo- ~ ple with money to pay for their enter- 3 taimnent find no one to cater for them it will be one of the wonders of the world. Everywhere people are crowd- ing one another in order to supply that for which others are willing to part with their money. It will be strange if this clamant want be left long unsupplied. LOCAL or'nos AND norm. ac- - commnumm The taking away of the shop licenses did not stop the grocery business. nor has the restriction of the drink trade to the saloons, common in many of the Western States, stopped erecting and maintaining some of the most palatial hotels in the continent, and notwithstanding the cry that the craft is in danger, we shall have hotels with rooms to warm in. tables to eat at and beds to sleep on. though not a drop of strong drink is supplied on the prom- isos. But will there be any guarantee that the il(3L'()lllnludiltlull will be satisfac- tory? At present if a man find the acmnmnodation little to his liking he can comfort himself that the license connnissioners have pronounced it good. Travellers tell us this is the on- ly comfort they get in many hotels thrmigh the country. At this we are not surprised, for even in Toronto Commissioner Starr reports that many of the houses thus certified are not lit for human beings to live in. But if a man were doomed to eat indigestible food and lie on a sleepless couch, and had no assurance from the License Commissioners that it was all right, he Would be in a bad plight indeed. Evidently the present condition of many of the public houses is directly traceable to the arrangement by which the boarding department is tacked on as dead weight to the section whence comes the money. Quick returns come from the bar, and, so long as that prospers the only care for the boarding accommodation is to keep clear of the claws of the License Com- missioners. 'lhus every motive com- bines to keep hotel proprietors from either improving their boarding ac- cenunodations themselves or leaving the field for others to do it. All that is required to make sure of having hotels equipped and maintained to meet the public wants is to make them depend for their existence on pleasing their patrons. That is cut off their drink trade and make the other part of the business maintain itself. \Vhether Local Option become law or not the bar must be separated from the hotel. Yet there are some difficul- ties that claim immediate attention. The present possessors of the hotels may on the first of May close their doors and wire up their sheds. As in a state of war, armies welcome a loss to themselves if it brings a greater loss to their enemies. So the hotel pro- prietors may seek at their own loss to harm others in order to secure voters at the next election. Their possession of the buildings gives them special advantage in this Struggle, since if another hotel were put up they could at once open their houses and freeze out their rivals. It is to be hOped no such war. hurtful to both parties, will arise. It is the part of temperance people to be fair and considerate in their conducting of the campaign. We are not at war With our hotel pro- prietors. but we must stand in such phalanx that the attempt to break our ranks will be seen to be hopeless. Temperance people will consult their own and the town’s interests if ar- rangements are early made, by 'which temporary accommodation can be giv- en to the public in case the war should be forced upon us. The surest Way to prevent the shutting of the hotels is to be ready to do without them. Under the new order hotel-keepers may keep out those they think unde- sirable, or may refuse to open their doors by night no matter how impor- tunate the knocking. To guard against this, many people and some newspapers of repute have been advo- cating the issuing of licenses to tem- perance houses. The advocates of this scheme, however, do not seem to observe that all the value of a license is its prohibiting others from taking part in the business. If all giving of ‘ meals or lodging for pay were restrict- l ed to a small number of license holders lthe licenses would be eagerly sought afterâ€"even though the condition was that the house be public. Any service, however, that was thus secured would be dearly paid for in the increase in the rates charged. Better meet the difliculty of securing public service directly than by creating a monopoly in a. line of business that should be unrestricted. . The real issue as to hotel accommo- dation is, whether temperance people are willing, not only to vote for local option and emcee gthelaw, but also (By Rev. W. Farquharson.) THE DURHA M CHRONICLE ers of the bar. Why should any man spunge on the public by getting water or shelter for his horse or a room for his wite or himself to warm and rest in, without honestly and generously paying for it? If we are not suflicient- ly in earnest to bear our share of maintaining public conveniences it is safe to say that the whole Local Option movement, sooner or later, Will end in failure. If then the temperance people will stand together. pay together, and bear together, we shall not only see drink- ing lessened but hotel accommodation in every way better than it is at present. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. The Commencement Exercises in connection with Durham School were held in the hall here on Friday evening last. The building was uncomfortably full, and the large audience enjoyed a very pleasant program provided for the occasion. Principal Allan acted as Chairman, and it is needless to say that he discharged his duties very becomingly. The chief feature of the evening, so far as the pupils were concerned, was the presentation of medals to the dif- ferent prize winners in the recent ex- aminations. Dr. Jamieson’s medal was to the pupil who stood highest in the recent Entrance Examination and the. presentation was made by the Doctor himself in his own happy style. In his intrmluotory remarks he stated that it was through the “seductive smiles ” of Trustees ltamage and John- ston that he was led to eontrilmte one of the medals. He did uot know for what subject it was to he given, nor did he yet know to whom. The win- ner, however. was James l*‘ar(p1l1a1's()n, whom he supposed was the best boy in the County. The. next medal, awarded by the School Board, was presented to Miss Mary \Vright for her standing in Dur- hztm School. This prize was really Won by Jmnes Farquhnrson, but as no pupil should receive more than one medal the next in the school came. in for the award. This medal was pre- sented by Mr. C. L. Grant in behalf of the Board. Miss Ruby Mills stood highest: in Form I and was awarded Principal Allan’s medal, which he gracefully presented with it promise to make a similar presentation next year. The School Board also gave a, schol- arship to the pupil standing highest in Form III. The Winner was Miss Bessie \Veir and the presentation was made by Mr. Rzunage, the Secretary of the Board. ' The diiferent certificates obtained at the last Entrance and Leaving and Junior Matriculation Examinations were presented by Revs. Newton and Farquharson and Mr. N. \V. Campbell. Short pithy and appreciative ad- dresses .vere made by the resident (Ilergymen and Inspector Campbell, all of Whom gave much praise to the efficiency of the teachers, who had succeeded so well in preparing their candidates. Mr. Campbell had a vol- ume of praise for Miss McKenzie, and Mr. Farquharson in his address showed that Durham School. which did only Continuation work, was quite equal to many of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes of the Province. Mr. Ramage expressed his gratitude to the assistants in the High School Department who had contributed so largely to the great success of the re- cent examinations. The program, furnished by the pupils, was quite interesting. The Wand Drill was well rendered, the dialogue was lively and laughable, and the recitals and songs were all good. This was the first Commencement Exercises of the kind held in town, but we feel quite safe in saying that it Will now be :L yearly event. ,A number of members of the Rifle Association met on Saturday after- noon for a little practice. The follow- ing is the score at the different dis- tances, and should the weather be fine on Saturday there will. be another trial of skill:â€" E. Wolfe 40 R.McCorquodale 22 J. P. Telford 32 J. C. Telford 15 Dr. Maclaurin 26 John McGirr 13 Capt. Snider 22 R.Torry (5 shots) 14 At 300 yds., 10 shots each, possible 50: R. Torry 40 McDonald 32 McCorquodale 40 Buchanan 30 J. P. Telford 37 Capt. Snider 28 Sinclair 33 Dr. Maclaurin 16 Sinclair Johnson Same range, 5 shots each, possible 25: W. Ramage 17 J. C. Telford 10 W. Irwin 15 It would never do to stop here. Mr. Wm. Ramage thinks the pen is might- er than the gun in our hands, but on Saturday last we trimmed him to a peak at 500 yards. Just think of an ordinary quill pusher beating a born soldier at his own game. We had five shots each. Mr. Ramage’s score stood 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, total 0. Ours was 0, O. 0, O- 2, total 2. Majority for us, 2. Bully for us. Editor Ramage throws out a sort of. challenge to shoot against us next Saturday. Ws‘accept. ‘ The scores are of those who take 25 per cent. or over at all ranges. AT THE BUTTS. 'Remember, both HE and SHE expect sumething pruuy nim- mg“ Xma- :md \Vebster’s Hig‘naChlss Display will «werszinly meet; with their :mprnml. Our display of \Vatches, (,‘hains, Lockeu. film-chats and Rings mnhi not possibly be better. The latter, we challenge any Juwvllm- this side ”1' Tnmmo to compete w1th. DON’T FORGET THAT XMAS PRESENT \Vebster’s has'been known all over the. country fur High-Class Silverw: re and we are proud tn sagmu‘ Xmas sLm-k is hvltm' than cwr before. \Ve consider it a, favor rather than a tmuhlu in show thwc guods. so bring along your iriends anytime. Watchmakcr JEWELLER Xmas PERCY (i. A. WEBSTER Silverware ! Opposite Post Office. Repairing a Specialty Nov. 28, 1907 Presents Optician