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one. Here you see the sentimental Mr. Right courting the practical Molly. Sympathize With the sympathetic Miss Jones entertain- ing the bashful Ephraim Snelgrove Don’t miss the city dude Robert Spence, and the smiling MissSmi- ley. ~Hear Cousin Schnaber tell the “news.” Town hall. November 26.. Admission 25c. ' Patriotic concert. town hall, NOV 26th. all of proceeds go to Red Cross. We Want you to call on the Minister and his lovely bride. Lessons in the artistic decorating?1 of parlors given by Mesdames‘ Sharp, Seegood and Betterday‘s. Enjoy not two hearts that beat as one. but five voices that sing as The Baptist church has been weli lighted for years with acetylene gas. but the change to electric lighting came with the hydro. and on Sunday night the congregation was delighted with the change. The auditorium is supplied with ”four nitrogen filled lamps of 150 watts each. To this will be added an ordinary lamp in addition for the pulpit. and one for the choir. The work was done by Mr. Bal- ment. of Toronto. and the system‘ is the first of the kind installed in the town an ideal place for the business. He takes much interest in the work, and will doutbless make. a success of it. We hope the Will., Mr. Will Atkinson, who bought the Mrs. Lauder property near the creamery some time ago has sold it to Mr. Wm. McDonalfl. who will take possession about the first of March. We are told that Mr. Mc- Donald intends going into poultry raising on an extensive scale-am) the prOperty purchased will be DUTDOSGS. The Ymvne' Peonie of St Peter‘s reh'weh had a verv successfui ho; cor-in] and dance in the town hail her night There was a good nt- "ten-dance and the bidding on th¢ h’er-c was brisk and Drices ran from 50c. to $2.60. Auctioneer Brig-ham wielded the hammer. and proceeds from the boxes ran con- siderably over $100. The total re- ceints were about $210. much of which is intended for patriotic Tf nnv of our readers have n‘d m-mrs We would like to have them handed in so as to make an- ")H‘r-v- ch3nmenf. The ”“650“: new? them and appreciate a good ntd one more than an inferiOr new one “'0 have about a dOZen not ref no- ‘muwvodcrer'l through nur enlumns. Let us have a few more so that we can send them away and then tr-H who save them to us. Photographs for Christmas.â€"~ Please fifteen of your friends at Christmas with a photograph of vourself or familx'. Thrnp extra nhntns with each dozen. Work fin- fished in black and white. or snnia. Make Your appointment nowâ€"F. W. Kelsey. The ladies of the Red Cross So- c’v‘efv ”intend having: a sale of fancv articles and homemade bak- ‘mg on December 11. to be held at the public library. Any donation to Yhf‘ sale will be thankfully re- "M." pd ,‘Ir Piercy Cornish. of the sec- on} concession of Normanbv. is “thing from the farm. his health being very poor Mr. Fortune. of Avton. has this valuable farm for sale. Read his ad. on page two in *hi-z manor Christmas photographs. -â€" Make your appointment now. Fifteen photographs with every dozen You could not make a better Christmas giftâ€"F. W. Kelsey. The Girl Guides, Co. No. 2 will have a sale of home made baking on Saturday afternoon next, lunch served from 3 to 5, and supper from 5 to 7, Calder’s Hall. Mr. Robert Wade, who is now in his position in Detroit to accept a much more lucrative position on the Michigan Central. Don’t fail to see Miranda Meek and her reluctant bridegroom at the town hall, Friday, Nov., 26th. Lostâ€"A gold bar, with “Merle” engraved on it. Finder will please return to this office. VOL. 48â€"NO. 2544 NEWS AROUND TOWN In answer to Mr. Calder’s letter We may say we examined the in- voices and find some strange fig- uring,'but nothing to show that the council or any of its mem- bers are guilty of any wilful wrong. Some prices are marked ten per cent above the invoice, some considerably more than ten _ per cent above, some less than ten 'per cent above and in one or two instances the price marked is considerably below cost. The ma-, terials too high are in some cases' the materials used largely inl Wiring installation, but the error. for error it doubtless is, is based on a one foot unit instead of ,a hundred feet or higher unit of . measurement. The invoices are open for inspection and any one! desirous of doing so can verify the position we take. There was. no misrepresentation on our part as Mr. Calder would have the public believe. d Last Week Constable Arrowsmith seized a quantity of Whiskey and other intoxicants in the H'ah‘m Sta- bles, and on appearing Monday be- fore Magistrate Laidlaw Mr. Hahn pleaded guilty and was fined $300 Another charge made against E Bar ner for obstructing ,the cor;- stable was dismissed as the icon- stable on seeking admittance to the hotel stable omitted to give his name Mr. Thomas Connolly, a pioneer of the 6th., of Glenelg. died yes» terday at the age of eight): years. He had been ailing for the past three years, and death was not unexpected. He leaves a widow and four sons, William, at Kenil- worth, Patrick, in North Dakota. James and Arthur at home.- In- terment takes place toâ€"day at St]: John’s Cemetery, Glenelg. Mr. David Petty. of Sonris, Max-- itoha. will accept thanks for remittance. Though twenty years have elapsed since he was in Dar- ham he has still an interest in the old town and in the people. He refers specially to Mr. Aljoe sr._. who he says was a father to him in his early days in town. He would like to see the old gentle- man, but has no idea as to when he will come east. Mrs. Hunter, of Brampton. will address the Durham Bran-ch]. W0- men’s Institute in the library on Thursday. December 2 at 2.30 pm. All who heard Mrs. Hunter last August will be delighted to hear her again. Each member is spec- ially asked to be present, and to bring a friend with her, and all ladies are cordially invited to at- tend and hear this splendid speak- the town limits on the Durham’ant road to Mr. Walter Ferguson, of ; pri‘ Egremont. Mr. Ferguson in- 9 If : tended to move to town in Februâ€" ’ tim ary or March, but this week deci- 2 be ded otherwise, and sold the farm . the to Will and Herb Atkinson, sousflvou of the former owner, They will: rerr take possession the first of March {out Mr. J. H. Cork ll the hydro pa 1 trol man, located here, has been; engaged temporarily to look after electrical affairs in town, and all desiring information as to theix . requirements. will ’be able to get; it from him. If you have troubleg’ tell Mr. Corkill and he’ll be on the iob as soon as he can. A box-social under the aus- pices of the Red Cross will be held in S. S. 'no. ten, Bentinck, on Friday evening, December tenth. .3; good patriotic programme is being- provided and suitable ac- commadation for horses. Admiss- §on 25c. Ladies with boxes free 9 Bring all kinds of raw hid-es, furs and sheepskins to Levine’s, at Durham He pays the highest cash prices. Mr. Peter O’Neill, of Gleneig Centre, a gentleman over eighty years of age is quite ill, and the relatives have very little hope fur recovery. Mrs. Thomas Daniel, who basil“! been ill for several months past the is gradually sgrowing weaker, and lion recovery is not looked for. l m Another paragraph may help 16 make the situation clearer. If the town agrees to take a hun- dred horse power, and takes that hundred horse power for only twenty consecutive minutes, they will be charged for a hundreds horse power during the full ‘month i even if they hadn’t taken morei than fifty horse power at any oth- er time during the month. If the town has to .pay $33 - a horse power per year they would \ be charged for the month in ques- is on they will be getting more revenue for the town and with no additional loss of service to themselves. We hope our explanation is suf- ficiently plain for our readers to understand, and if domestic users avoid using their domestic ap- pliances as far as possible during the time the ~hieavy load is on they Will Electric toasters, electric irons. and the many other electrical de- vices When used during the “under peak,” will cost the users, 'but not the town. What cheapens the cost to the town is 'a benefit to every rate payer, and should - be known and practised as a piece of general economy in which all should take part. I The town’ s heavy load, or peak {load will be on during‘the night, 'particularly up to ten or eleven o’clock, when the street lighlts'and domestic lights are all in 'use. The load delivered during the day ’Will be very light comparatively, and. domestic users of the current dur- ing the day Will not increase the cost of current to the‘town. The domestic users will, of course have to pay for the amount of current but anything they use when the load is “under peak” is a clear‘ Drofit to the town. The town as .a municipality wars by the horse poxveridelivered here. and the charge is (made ' on the highest peak load for! any twenty consecutive minutes during each month. ( Not Only is hydro suitablei for lighting purposes, but in manv domestic affairs it can he used to advantage. To know the time to use it so as not to increase the town cost is something that every ratepeyer should be interested in and the sooner they know {it the hotter. It is now quite in ‘order to say a few words about the hydro. 'Wc have been told time and again that the more current we use the. cheaper it Will be in pronortion. and as circumstances justify the price to the town and the Pricc‘ to consumers will be lowered. man with twenty lights installed Will pay the same as the man )with one light, provided he uses' no more current in one case than it: the other. This is as it should be and the installing of metres is a principle We have long advocated If all thel ights Iare left on all the the flat rate. Shut them off when you don’t need them; that’s the- remedy, and users will soon find it (V ‘and adjustments should have been a made earlier, but many felt the cur- rent would not be on before Christ- imas. and were apparently in no :hurry. As to the cost of currem.‘ Sunder the hydro system it is too iearly yet to make any prediction. lW’e are confident, however, that Lusers who practice the prOper eon- gnomy will be served cheaper than linnder the old system at 12“”) 'dollars per light if éall lights were ’charged for. The old system was wrong from the start, and kePt‘ users from installing as many lights as they would like to Now the] The Hydro' current was turned on here last Thursday evena'n,<_.>;j..tire~ [18th., inst, and in“ part of the everything perfect on the touch-3 ing‘ of the button, The streeii lights for some reason didn’t res- pond properly, but now they seem to be :doing all right and in a short time everything will be in order Houses now in readiness are ’ having the metres installed. and other intending users are gettinp‘; things in readiness. The Wiring" i DURHAM, ONT- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 HINTS ON HYDRO HYDRO TURN EB GN' We regret to learn of the trouble experienced in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Wilson. Whose eldest daughter. Lena. died on Thursdav last at the Hamilton Sanatarium Where she had been taken fer treatment only three or ' four weeks ago. She was twenty-six years of age, and. ill only a short time. The remains Were brought home on Friday last, and. were in- terred on Sunday in the Durham 1 cemetery. i The remains of J. D. McCrackent whose death we mentioned last week arrived here Tuesday nigh! from Davidson, Sask, and were in- terred yesterday in Trinity church cemetery. No definite particulars of the cause have been learned here. He was thirty-three years of age, and had been west for the past ten or twelve years. Mr. Robert Brigham advertises for sale by auction on Wednesday December first at his farm, .Allan Park, 25 good young cows, and about 50 young cattle and calves November 25th. Just a month till Christmas. Do your shopping early and avoid the rush. For commercial stationery and good work try the Chronicle. ~ f The attendance was much too ‘small, but rightly or wrongly the blame was put on the weather. 1n fair weather or foul a public meeting of this scrt, where able speakers come from a distance. the attendance should be better. A small attendance on such occasions shows a lack of interest, and one hates to think thlat Durham is not interested in this all absorbing topic. Mr. Laidlaw and Mr. Calder spoke briefly in moving a vote of thanks to the speakers of the evening, after which a committee was appointed to advance the pa- triotic movement. Mr. McGarry, who is also an exâ€" cellent speaker. paid a high trib- ute to Dr. Jamieson as speaker in speaker in the Legislature, and made a forceful appeal to all classes of the necessity for person- al endeav or in bringing the war to a successluf issue.‘ Major J. C. Tolmie, of Windsor, was the next speaker, and for half an hour or more the person- ality of the man, the fervor of his utterance, and his strong apâ€" nea] to everyone to do his share in the great conflict. by way of recruiting and giving, made an intense impression on all Wi‘O heard him. ! Rousing patriotic speeches were idelixered here on Fridav last by EHon. T. W. McGarry, Prox-incial iTreasurer and Major J. C. ToImie. iM.P.P. Rev. Father Ferguson. of iAyton. *drove all the way over to .hear them, knowing that the plea- sure would well repay the effort even if the night were stormy. Mayor Hunter occupied the chair, and on learning the speakers would not be present till the arrival of the G..TR., after a few explanatory remarks he called on a male chorus of seven or eighti dering of the Maple Leaf. Father Ferguson was then called to the platform, and for fifteen or twenty minutes he delighted the audience with. an address full of earnestness and patriotic fervor. i 3 We have endeavored to explain this for the benefit of the town. land the benefit of the consumer. !in accordance with: our ideas on ithe subject. If‘we are Wrongin any gnarti‘cular We shall be glad ‘to be 'put right. ' 'tion' at' the rate? é‘f‘ $33 per home power for 100 hotsie' poWer. The [hydro is entitled to give“ as a 100 .I'rorse power every hO‘U‘r during Effie month Without additional cost «If is our business to use as :much of that h’unldred horse! pow- ier as We can, and: we may as Well Fuse it all as we have to pay for the peak load? anyway. I Use current, 'btri use it if possible when the load is light, and by so doing you reduce the cost’ ‘to the town without increasing the cost to yourself. a 1915 We are very fortunate in being able to offer you some excellent values in Cashmere Hose at the old prices. As we all know, these goods have advanced enormously the last month or so, and some lines you cannot buy at any money. They are off the market. We have also a. fine stock of Ladles’ and Children’s Underwear. All sizes, at old prices Our Mantle trade is booming this Season. Bigger and better than: ever. PER SUIT $1.00 PER YEAR