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Peter Black, whose son Arthur. engaged in the cement works there. was injured yesterday, and a message this morning announces his death. We have no particulars of the accident. So far as we know the unfortunate young man was steady and industrious, and we sympathize deeply with the par- ents in their sad bereavement. Sad news has just been received from St. Marys by Mr. and Mrs. The Dundalk Herald will not be issued this Week. The office Will be Open for business, and, we pre- sume, the staff will take a rest, in sweating over a voters’ list that’s done at sweat-shop prices. Only on two or three occasions in our experience did The Chrohicle knock off for a holiday. Joseph R. Henderson of Mont- real. president and general man- ager of Bran-dram-Henderson, Lim- ited. Montreal and Halifax, man- ufacturers of paints, etc., died suddenly at Halifax. while playingr a game of golf. He was born in Halifax 64 years ago. The Dornoch branch of the W0â€" men’s Institute will meet at the home of Mrs. Alex. Campbell, at Welbeck, on August 14, at 2.30 p.m. All ladies are cordially invited to attend. Come prepared to answer the roll call by different uses of The ladies of St. Paul’s church, Egremont, had ‘a successful sale of home-made bread, butter, ice cream, etc., on Saturday. The pro- ceeds went to Red Cross purposes. Of the candidates who respoqd- ed last week to the recruiting call George Lloyd, Ernest McGirr .and Alex. Bell were accepted and are now 'at Niagara in training. Miss Rita Irwin will resume her duties as teacher of music in Sep- tember. If desired, pupils niay be prepared for University or Con- servatorv of Music examinations. Owing to a strike of saw filers at Midland, Manley CheWs mill has closed down, and 175 men are thrown out of work. 0f twenty-one pupils from Dun- dalk high school, fourteen were successful in the recent depart- mental examinations. Autos for hire.â€"Compete~nt driv- era furnished and rates moderate. The Garage. Durham . 624 The Chatsworth News has in- stalled a monoline typesetting machine. ‘ We have just received a .full stock of Neilson’s chocolates at The Variety Store. Men’s grey striped cotton pants, five pockets, for $1.15. At Grant’s cm VOL. 48â€"NO. 2528 NEWS AROUND TOWN referee. it. The regular meeting of the Durham town council was held on Tuesday night. After general rout- ine business. and the passing of a} batch of accounts. the time up to nearly .midnigh‘t was wasted in a worthless discussion on the Hydroi sub-station. Mr. Calder was one of _ the chief spokesmen and, handed out the second installment? of abuse to the editor of this' paper. and a number of other: respectable citizens, Whose onlv crime seemed to be that they did not think just as he did as to where the sub-station should be} placed. A public meeting is to bei held to-morrow evening, when: the entertainment will be con- tinued, with some new features; added. It will be well worth going i to, and every interested citizen should be present to - witness the execution. Mr. Calder is loaded for bear, and {We’re going to have 1 a rattling good tine. Don’t miss ‘ On Friday of last week while Mr. Chyas. Proctor and one of his little girls were engaged in' a berry patch on the property back of the cement works, he claims to havre come quite close to a black bear. He first thought it was a cow, and ordered the animal off. On further investigation he decid- ed to perform the getting off stunt himself, and beat a hastv retreat for safety. Shortly, the- woods were being scoured bj' a number of local hunIt-sm'em but Mr., Bruin kept out of sight and hasn‘t been: heard from since. ~ ' The Central Drug Store. owned by Mr Calder for the past seven or eight years, has been sold this week to Mr George Dingman. Stock is being taken now, and the new proprietor will take charge at once Mr. Dingman is a brother of W S. Ding-{mam one of the provincial license commis- sioners. and of L H. Dingman, president and manager of the St Thomas Times Publishing Co. We wish the new proprietor an abund- ant success. Mr. J. A .Hunter .and a friend. Mr Orde, of Minneapolis, arrived Ein town a few days ago and will ’spend a few weeks with old friends and acquaintances here. It is now about fourteen years since Mr. Hunter gave up business in town. and five or six years since he was here last. He sees quite an improvement in the old town. He is looking well. and the tinge of, time seems to have touched him lightly. Ford cars were reduced in price since the first of August, and since then sales have been made to Frank Lenahan, Allan Cameron, Gideon Johnstone and Charles Ramage. The prices now are $530 for the touring car and $480 for the runabout. The pur- chases were made in the order given above. 4 The storm of Tuesday caused a few short circuits on. the =Hydro system in. town, and the place, in consequence, was in darkness on Tuesday night. It .was at first thought that the furniture com- pany’s line was the one affected, but .a test on. the lights in the factory showed that this was not the case. Mr. Alla-n Bell left us two heads of oats yesterday. One contained 139 grains and the other 100 grains. The strawfhe tells us, is about six feet .high, and the two heads he brought in just picked at ran- dom as he passed through the field. The crop is on his farm a couple of miles east of town , A garden party in connection with St. Paul’s church, Egremont, will be held at Allan’s scho'ol on Friday of next week, August 13. Refreshments will be served and a program rendered. Everybody is invited. - The H-ampden garden party will! be held on Mr. Wm. Little’s lawn' on Friday evening, August 20. All! are invited. ' ‘ 2 1751' sale.â€"Eight Yorkshire pigs ready to wean. A snap. F. Mur-i dock, one mile south-West of, Durham. 1 . The Entrance results are out at last. We knew some time ago they .v ere likely to be delayed, but said little about it. The delay rwas caused by the papers’ from the Durham centre being called in bv the department for re-examina- tion, a privilege they reserVe. and one, We understand, that has been practised in different locali- ties as decided on from time to time .by the department. Durham Reeve Nichol was an efficient chairman. at the concert. Grate receipts, $223.05; Concert, $92.88; Meals, $158.00: Red Cross Booth..$68.30. Total, $542.23, A couple of pipers from Toron- to were present and gave a num- ber of selections that stirred the blood of the ,Scotchmen. The proceeds were as follows, but all expenses have not yet bee-n learned: ' Miss Rita Irwin is evidently a favorite in Priceville, where she has appeared on several occa- sions as piano soloist and musical accompanist. the Bruce-Brown. She possesses fine musical ability, and her bright expression and attractive stage appearance created a favorable impression from the first. Ever}r number was well rendered and loudly encored. ' had it not :been for the outbreak of war, has won laurels for herself in Massey .Hall and other 'large concert halls. .She is a descendent of Sir Robert Bruce on her moth- er’s side, and retains the name in Miss Bruce-Brown, a talented Scottish vocalist, who came to Canada a few months ago on the Lusitania, and would have re- turned on her last and fatal trip The concert in the evening was a great success. Mr. Fiddes, of Toronto, has .a fine voice, of wide compass, and thoroughly under control. Every number was appre- ciated and an encore was forced bv the delighted audience. [don the trip. Telephoning again, ,they learned that Jupiter Pluvius was then doing some of his best; work in IPriceville and the game‘ lwould have .to .be called off. Thei ,Viandeleur boys were on hand,l ;but were there Without competi-l tors, and there was no 'game. Mr. Chas. Saunders, Durhamsl jhigh wire artist, gave a good: exhibition of his skill in spite of the umfavorable weather, which! nearly caused an accident. but’ didn’t. .A football match between Flâ€"esherton .and Drozmore, which, owing to the condition of the field, was a poor exhibition, was played between .rainfalls. result-' ed. as far as we can learn, in a tie. Nearly all the sports w ere. cancelled, and the demonstration? “ill pass into historr} as Price-.I v’illes first failure to give a ; real entertainment. 1' , Early in the day it was learned that the (Police Pipe Band of Tor- onto, were forbidden to leave the .city, and the explanation in that day’ 3 issue of The Globe was suf- ficient to exonerate the local com- mittee from [all blame. LOvers of the pipes were doubtless disap- poin.,ted but the outlav was for patriotic purposes and the loyal visitors made the best of the sit- nation A Visiting baseball team iwas also advertised to plav 'a team from Vandeleur. It was rain- img at the home of the Visitors. but the telephone .was used ' to ascertain the condition of Price- ville weather, which at the time was dry, but threatening. The visitors, however, were advised to make a start, and after making eight miles in autos, the roads were so had they decided to aban- Partly owing to unfavorable weather, and partly on account of disappointments over which the ,management had no control, the :civic holiday demonstration in 1Priceville was below the standard 'of former years. Notwithstanding {the dark, lowering appearance of 'the morning, a large number had assembled for the occasion, and earhv in the afternoon the pleasure gseekers were inside the gate gwh'en the rain started, first as a} :sprinkle, but soon as a down- foour PRICEVILLE’S CIVIC HOLIDAY ENTRANCE RESULTS DURHAM, ONT. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. Illa ucaL 1e game of f. The The following is the list of the asuccessful candidates in the re- the High School at the centres |named below. For a pass, 40 per me. ‘ [cent was required on each subject >urham 3 , and 60 per cent. of the total, or a 300d 3% marks. Those receiving Honor spite Offitanding, indicated by (H), ob- whichgtazined at least a total of 486 .t. but marks. The cards containing the between marks of the unsuccessful candi- WhiCht dates will be sent out as soon as of thelpossiblie: Mr. W. J; Young one. 'We’ll wait a few days before shipping, to see if others, will come in. U 1" W'e asked last Week 1701‘ old or discarded razbrs, to be sent to the soldiers at the front. Sin'ce then, Mr. «C. Sparling gave. -us three, Mr. Arthur Edge two, . and HANOVER: Arthur Bieman (H)- ; Harvey Bohlen'der, Evelyn Mamie :B-ott, Ralph Brunt, Clyde Dankert, Mav Derby, Wm. Derby, Clara Diebel, Stanley Eckel, Percy Ev- enitt. Arthur L. Ford, Nora Gate- ma'n, Clifton Graff (H), Lillian Hamel, Frederick Hodder (H), Min- nie Kirschke, Fritz Knechtel (H), Reuben Knech-tel, N els-on Krueger. Vera Langley, Lillian Meades, Pauline 'Messerschmidt, Lillian Muir, Walter Reuber, Alice C. Schmidt, Annie May Schmidt. Gor- don Schroeder, Harold Shoenhalz, Gordon, Spiesmann, Louise Twiet- meyer, Jessie ,Witthun. I " NEUSTADT: Guenther Brack- ebush, George Karl, Gertie Lip- pert, Nelson Martin. Allen Rahn. DROMORE : Vera Campbell. Walter Ha-étie, Ruberta Philips. Mildred Scott. AYTON: Lillian Kenna (H\, Noah Oehm, Clarence Robinson. Madeline Troy, Della Werner. David Widmeyer. Carson, Ralph Catton. Joseph Ed- ,‘u ards. Annie C. Graham (H), Car- irie Grierson, ‘-Ma1ie Heslett. G01- 'man Johnston, My1tle Koch (H), Stirling Lamb, Georg Langrill. lJemima Laurence (H) Sibxl M. :Lawrence, Ruth LedinO'ham Au- idrey Livingston, Meml Living- ston (H), Daniel 1V1"cA1thu1. Marion *McArthur, Stella McCrae (H), Flor- l ence M'.cFarlane, Clarence Mc- .1 Girr (H), Edna M'cIlvrid'e. Jack McKechnie, Matthew McKeown Elsie May McLean(H), Janie Mc- Lean, Kate McNally, Donald Mc- Queen, Isabel M‘cQuaxrnie, Annie "Morrison; (H), Wilfrid Peter. James Rutherford (H), Raymond Search, Evelyn Sharp, Harold Sharpe (H). Ruby Smith, Willet Snlell, Etta Twamley, George Vasey Joe Whitchurch, Dorrie Whiteford (H), Ethel Whitmore, GeOrge Williams, Ethel B. Young had a failure for several years, has made another clean sweep, every one of her twenty candi- dates having passed, and several taking honors. W'e congratulate Miss MacKe-nzie on her success, and the board for their Wisdom in retaining her services. happened to be among the chosen centres this time, but everything proved satisfactory. Every candi- date passed bv the local board and all recommended candidates, were approved by the department. Again Miss MacKenzie, “’th hasn’t Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Firth of Durham, now at Shorncliff, England, preparing for the front. CAPT. ALEX FIRTH '.I9|5 Highest Price Paid for W001 AAAAllfllllu'AAAAAAAAAAA' LADIES’ WASH. DRESSES, In Striped Gingham, Neatly Trimmed for $1.98 Print and Gingham in Dark Colors for 98¢ LADIES’ WAISTS ine 'VVhite Muslin, reg. $5; I".A HOSIERY SPECIALS 25 Dozen Ladies’ Cotton Hose 2 Gingham and I at lowest prices. {CHILDREN’S DRESSES MISSES’ DRESSES $1.00 PER YEAR 2 for 25¢: