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1"” of Egremont, 3 miles from Durham. Good Bsmmth _st9_ne Pfoyngafion. mall I beg to announce to the citizens, of Durham and Vi- cinity that I have opened up a first-class Butcher Shop in the )‘Iaclntyre Block Where I will furnish all kinds of first class meats at reasonable prices. Trial order solicited NEW BUTCH ER SHOP Pocatoes per bag. . z . . . Flour per cwt ........ Oatmeal per sack ..... Chop per cwt ........ Live Hogs, per mm. . . Dressed Hogs per cwt. Hides per 1b ........ C) d 3 1 5 9-. t Note the address McIntyre Block, - Durham What we do Look! Look! DURHAM. But Flowers nmrgin trade. Saturday next conuuencing at noon we will continue to sell, Prints and Shit-ting at great; reductions dont miss this oppor- tunity. About selling below cost and other such nonsense. What we say, We do. and we belime we are giving as good value for the money as in any house in town! In Blankets, Tweeds. under- wear, Prints. Cottons. Flannels Flannulettes, and groceries of all kinds is to sell at :1 very low Nov. 28, 1907 DURHAM. 1V ov. 28. . PHILLIPS S. SCOTT Farm for Sale. Market Report. Pot Plants Bulbs Floral Designs and Floral Decorations of all kinds on shortest notice. 16m: FARM IN TOWNSHIP of ppm for cash or aoil._ Tushmubemg 28. 1907 .3 9:") to $1 95 to 1 50 to 80 to . 65 to .18 00 to 20 25 to 25 to . 75 to . 2 75 to 3 70 to 2 75 to 3 60 to 1 60 to 5 65 to 7 15 to 5 to 40 to 23 to 5 to 12 to 11 ONTARIO t0 t0 t0 and 100 Ctr-loam CZ comic-5| O 00' 01 O! 13 O. S. Times. Continued from last week. The clerk presented a number of communications and accounts, among the former were the county treasur- er’s statement of the Hat of the lic. ensed auctioneers and peddlers, also a Statement as to the finances of the county. The treasurer wrote to say that he had taken up $8000 of the county debentures at a discount. A letter was received from Lieut- Col. Rorke, of the 3lst Regiment. asking ‘fo: the usual grant to the non commissioned oflicers and men on their annual drill in June last. Mr. R McKnight, registrar of North Grey, asked to have electric lights placed in the vault of the regiStry office. A cOpy of the award of the arbitra- tors in the proposed union school seetion between-Artemesia and 05- prey was received and referred to the education committee. The clerk of Neustadt wrote with reference to forming: a. union school seetiou with a. portion of Normanby. A draft of a memorial from the county council of Haiton‘ was receiv ed asking the Grey county council to join with them in memorializing the Ontario government for an increase in the grants given to municipalities for the improvement of the public roads. The several accounts and communi cations were referred to their reapece tive committees and the council ad- journed until two o’clock the next day. On resuming business Tuesday af ternoon the clerk read the present- ment of the Grand Jury from the Fall Assizes; also a letter from Dr. Bruce Smith, inspector of public charities. dealing with the result of the investigation into House of Re- fuge affairs, both of which have al- ready been published in The Times. Letters were also received from the county clerk. Mr. C. H. \Vhittun, and Mr. W F. C. Arlidge, together With ocher papers and petitions anent the House of Refuge affairs. The county clerk submitted a; cepy of a letter sent by him to those members of the grand jury who had signed the pre- sentment. Mr. C. H. Whittun’s let- ter explained why he was not present at the investigation. Mr. Arlidge comes from Meaford and was one of the members of the grand jury. His 'letter defends the position taken by the jury and goes on to eXplain some )of the reasons leading up to such a presentment being made. Mr. Arlidge says that the presentment was not a lrash report prepared by irresponsible men, at random, but was gone into with a desire to tell the truth as gathered from the inmates without fear or favor and with injustice to no one. Among the complaints which Mr. Arlidge claims to have heard was the alleged neglect of the manager to provide sugar and butter for the in-l mates. Although it was ascertained' that over seven hundred pounds of butter had been made on the farm during the year. Charges of partial- ity in the treatment of inmates were also made and of poor heating and lighting. It was claimed that suffi- cient and proper conveniences were not supplied for the rooms; that a dark hole was maintained in the basement into which inmates were thrust without sufficient cause; that they were forced to submit to the manager’s peculiar religious creed; that vegetables grown on the farm were not used for the benefit of the inmates but were sold or otherwise disposed of. These, with numerous other statements and conversations which the writer had overheard, con- vinced him that the inmates and the manager did not get along well to- gether. In concluding his letter, Mr. Arlidge says that he hopes the investigation will bring about a bet- ‘ ter state of things, and that the inmates will hereafter get the neces saries of life, and such comforts as are due them in their unfortunate condition and that they will at least be kinaly and considerately treated as their lot cannot be the happiest one at best. A large number of accounts were presented by the clerk which were passed on to their respective com- Toronto, October find, 1907. THE SOVEREIGN BANK OF CANADA Notice is hereby given that a dividend at the rate of six per cent (6%) per annum on the capital stock of this Bank has been declared for the period of four (4) months ending Noyember 30th, 1907, and that the same will be payable at the Head Ofice and at the Branches on and after Monday, the 16th day of December next. {the transfer books will be close from the let to the 14th day of December, both days inclusive. __. -_-‘â€"â€" A“ 1....“ “A 11"“ County Council. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD, The finance committee submitted a report, which‘was adopted. recom~ mending the payments of a numberl of accounts and the filing of the treasurer’s statements relative to the diatribution of 3600 granted to the various agricultural societies and the list of auctioneers and 'peddlers. A grant of $500 was made to supplement the pay of non-commissioned oficers and men of the 81815 Regiment. It was also recommended that the ether counties be asked to join with Grey county in memorializing the Domin- ion government to have the pay to non-commissioned oflicers and men of the Canadian Militia increased so as to secure a better supply oi , recruits. Report No. 1 of the road and bridge committee stated that the contract for the stone and cement work of the Scone bridge on the townline between Grey and Bruce, had been let to Walker Bros. at $1700, and the iron work to Messrs. Jenks Dresser, of Sarnia, for $1960; also that the con- tract for the Pottawatamie bridge had been let to Messrs. Frost Nickle for $3650. Of this amount the township of Sarawak and the town of Owen Sound are to pay $300 for the sidewalks. A. number of ac- Mr. Stephenson read report No. l of the House of Refuge committee, passing a number of accounts and referring to the recent presentment of the grand jury. The report denied; in most emphatic terms the charges made by the grand jury and accused that body of menâ€"or rather a part‘ of it, as only six members signed the, registerâ€"With deliberately misrepre- senting the facts and in support of its accusation read the report of Dr. Bruce Smith, inspector of public charities, who conducted the recent investigation. After discussing the matter in committee for considerable time the committee rose with leave to sit again this morning. when Mr. Harness, the keeper, was heard in his own defence. He positively de- nied all the charges made against him and stated that the whole trouble was the outcome of an old grudge against him on the part of Mr Whittun and Mr. Arlidge. The re- port was still under discussion when The Times went to press. A. W. CAMPBELL ON GOOD ROADS Interesting Address Before County Council. The Wednesday afternoon session of the County Council was almost entirely devoted to hearing an ad- dress on roadmaking by Mr. A. W. Campbell, Provincial InSpector of Roadmaking. Mr. Campbell gave a most interesting address and its re- sult- should be immediate action on the part of the County Council, along the lines indicated which were moat clearly pointed out. The visit of the inspector was made on the invita tion of the County Council. Mr, Campbell said he would not urge the county council to change its present method of doing work, but his object was to show the ex- perience of other municipalities so that the county could benefit by it. The benefit of expert exyerience was pointed out and it was just as neces- sary in the realm of road-making as in any other. it was very advanta- geous and well spent time for the county councillors to .meet together once a year at least and discuss road- making, He complimented some path-masters on the care and skill with which they did their work in their respective beats. while others are entirely indiEerent as to what work is done. or where it is done, so long as they are able to report at the end of the season that every man on their beat had done his statute labor. He urged that a regular system be adopted for the county roads and said while the county might seem to be a large area to undertake to con- trol, still it did not seem large to him, nor would it seem so to them had they the privilege of inspecting the roads of the entire province as he had the opportunity of doing. In the construction of roads the cost of implements wasa very simple con- sideration in the same way as cost of implements in any extensive work “was considered‘only a small item. l He showed that the first matter for. l consideration in roadmaking was the; drainage and it did not matter how much material was used if this was neglected. thework done would only be temporary and would soon have to be done over again. He knew the cost of roads all over the province and it was amusing to hear the way peeple talk about their roads. He had been lately in the section of country where they had to drive at the sides of the road, because it was impassibleâ€"deep mudâ€"and yet it was contended that the roads there (Continued next week.) O. S. Advertiser. General Manager. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE were pretty goodâ€"that hard blue clay was excellent in the weather, while in the Winter it did not matter. It was admitted however that in the . spring and fall the-roads were in a } deplorable condition. He found that i' there were several systems in vogue here and some of them must be wrong. In reference tostatntelabor. l ; he found that eight townships in the , ‘ county still hold“ to the statute labor, ? There were 1440 patbmaSters hand- ling the statute labor in the county. and besides these there were the township commissioners and the county commissioners. He would ask them what class were the roads of this country in as a Whole. Mr. Campbell then made the startling statement that in looking over his figures for the County of Grey since he had been there ten years ago. he found that there had been performed 479.580 days’ work of statute labor and $359,833 in cash expended on the roads, nearly a million dollars in l work and money, counting the statute , labor at only $1 a day and what had ' been obtained for it. When he was here last it was acknowledged that $200,000 should be raised and some regular system of roadmaking adop- ted for its expenditure. But the sum seemed large and it was not done. Here you have, expended nearly a million dollars, a sum large enough to macadamize one half of the road mileage of the country in a manner equal to the best roads ofl France and England, and what have you got for it? Is it not time to make achange? It is not a matter of increasmg expenditure, but of ex- pending itin a proper manner. He contended that the 1440 different, pathmasters held about 1440 different ideas of roadmakiug and showed that in many cases the work done as' Statute labor one year was simplyl undoing the work of the previous year. He had seen roads on which there was a good gravel Stone roundation, a pathmaster was ap- pointed whose idea was to get a road- grader to work and rake the sod in from the sides ol the road and cover up the good gravel or stone on the middle. He was pathmaster anu he would carry out his idea. though the heavens should fall. He referred to} the act passed by the Legislature by which a million dollars had been set ' aside for the improvement of roads on the basis of paying one third of the cost of work done of a perma- nent nature on country roads. He pointed Out the great benefit of this ' scheme. in which culverts, bridges and everything of a permanent char- 7 actor as well as the salary of the capable superintendents, were all in- cluded and payable two thirds by the county and one third by the Govern; ment. The item of making roads and keeping them in repair was the great- est item in the economy of a country and had cost the province of Ontario f. $20,000,000 during the past ten years. This was a sum greater than the people could Stand for the results ob tained. He suggerted the appoint- ment of a committee and hoped that in a couple of years the county would have made great advance in the mat ter of improving its roads. In con- cluding he referred to the great pro- gress made by the Town of Owen 't’ Sound after his last visit ten years '9 ago and paid a tribute to excellent 7 rOads and walks which it now posses- 868. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Campbell for his address, and the council shortly asterwards adjourned: At some stations the private sol- diers’ washing is usually done by the married soldiers’ wives. who are expected to sew on missing buttons and do little repairs, for which a small sum is deducted from the private’s pay. Private McGinnis had a great deal of trouble with his laundress. Sat- urday after Saturday he had his shirt come back with the neck-button 05, or else hanging by a single thread. He had spoken to her on the subject, and she had promised to see after it ; but still the button was not on proper- 1y. He got out of patience one Sunday, when the missing button had made him late for parade, and exclaimed. “Bad ’cess to ache woman, I’ll give a hint this time, any ho w.” He took the lid 05 his tin blacking-boxâ€" about 3-in. in diameterâ€"punched two holes in it with his fork, and then tied it on the neck of the shirt that was next to be washed. Next Saturday when his washing came back, the whole room gathered round him to see if she had taken the hint; she hadâ€"she had made a button- hole to fit it I They Raise More Grain I Than in the States. In his eddress on “The New Agri- culture” at McMaster University last night. Professor G. C. Creelman stated that the cat crop in Ontario had been increased 20 per cent. by scientific methods and that :hie meant twenty million dollars in the farmers’ pock- 61:8. Eighteen years ago Manchuria. bar- ley was a. curiosity in Ontario. but to-day our barley crepe cover half a; million aoreq and is worth 82,500,000. By picking out the plump grains from the shrunken ones in his seed wheat. said the Professor, a farmer can increase his yield by twenty per cent. The average wheat crop‘in Ontario for the last fifteen years has been 20.4 bushels to the acre, while that of the United States was only 12 bushels. FARMERS, CHEER UP! HINT NOT SLIGHT. "I Per Acre The right place to get your House Furnishings in all lines of Furniture, Window Shades, Curtain Poles Hurdware, Stoves, Panges, Heaters, etc. Our stock is complete and we invite you to call and examine the goods. It is no trouble to show goods. We have a good assortment of all these lines and our prices are right. Henry Boker's Skates in differ- ent lines are our leaders. HARDWARE AND FURNITURE We have a full line of Pmtts Celebrated Stock Food for horses, cows, sheep, pigs, poultrv. etc. Once used, always used. Difiei ent Styles, diffeient p1 1098 but all good x alue See them. 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