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Darkies’ Corners. (Our own curresuondent.) Many flllldt‘ mind use (if sloighing while it. was horn. Mr. A. McLanghlan visited his cousins. Mrs. Walter Nichol and Miss Janet McLaughlan, last Week. Mr. W. R. Watson is installing. a milking machine. Mr. Samuol Patterson had the mis- fortune to have a fall last week, which resulted in a broken ankle. Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Lindsay en- tertained their friends at a dance last Friday night. “Rigs. Aréh. fiark has been sutl‘ering from an attack of neuritis but we are glad to know she is Some better. ‘ Mr. Archie Robertson of town spent a day recently with Mr. and Mrs. \V‘altcr Nichol. 'Mr. John Lawrence has had his new home newly decorated and will suon be mming out. We welcome Mr. and Mrs Lawrence and daughter to our community. UV Miss Ufll‘l'lt‘ McNally spent a few days recently with her sister, Mrs. Lawrence McFadden. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lindsay and son, Allan Park, spent a day this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James MeGirr. / Canada ,, has adorted the policy of’l public ownership 0 thousands of milesl of railway. which lormerly comprisedl a number of separate systems. each under its own management. namely: the Canadian Northern. Grand Trunk Pacific )nd Grand Trunk Railway System. together with the Canadian Government Railways comprising the lntercolonial Railway, Prince Edward Island Railway and the National Transcontinental. ’On October 10. when the first meeting of the new Board of Directors was held at Toronto. these various systems were amalgamated into the consolidated system of Canadian National Railways. and all pldflKl under one President and one Boarclui Directors. In this far-flung system. the mum? of Canada not 'only own ow 22.17.01) miles of railway lines. touching every important city and scupmrt in (Le? DQminion.‘ but also a («lo-graph 12ml (aide service reaching with in Jun- ciated lines. 75,000 points in k .-2Lt(l.t. United States and Mexico; a llt'L'l u.‘ merchant ships comprising the Canadian Government Merchant Marine, tarry- ing Canadian products Over the sex-en seas; a fleet of modern passenger sit-71m- ers operating up and donn the l’at-ufu Coast; lrcighters and car'lerries on :he Croat Lakes; a chain pl palatial hotel»: the Canadian National Express Com- pany, and other properties throughout the country. All this represents a very lar e investment from whim the new resident and Board oi Diru- tors believe Canada will eventually derive material benefit. The recent appointment of Si! Henry Thornton as Presidcm of the Canadian National Railways. and his coming to Canada to take up the stupendous task of managing the greatesnsmgle railway â€" stem i3 {fig woad. marks 3.." epoch x:_railugay_!nstory of Cynqda. Sir Henry Thornton, the newh appointed President comes to CM! with an enviable record, hming h”! wide experience and signal were» in directing the manogcment and opera- tion of various important railway systems in the United States, England and on the continent. But to make the National Railways a success the eo-Operation oi the people of Canada is necessary, and it is the duty of every true Canadian to assist in making this property_the national asset it should be. O “‘0 - L £‘;‘“ ‘8‘-" fl 9 RA‘ ‘ H A Doubtless, at this time it will be of interest to learn something ol the early history and upbuilding of the roads now embraced in the Canadian National Railways. it must be remembered that it is less than a hundred years ago since the first stretch of railway in‘ Canada was lmilt. In 1832, a charter was granted to the company of the Champlain and St. Laurence Railroad for a portage road 16 miles long from La Prairie on the St. Lawrence to St. Johns on the Richelieu, to facilitate the handling of traffic between Montrealand New York. In 1836, this line was Opened for traffic. The rails, unlike the solid steel ones of to-day, were ol'woocl, with strap iron on the upper surface, and the crudely constructed mat-lees were drawn by horses. Thurzday, December 7, M Sovrry Miss Jessie Bell has been on In 1837 the proprietors imported an engine and (nginocr, the first to be used in Canada, a rakish little engine that rattled along at Its-.5 than twenty miles an hour. In 1847 it was decided to build a road front Montreal to Lach‘ne to replace the earlier stage rout4 around the rapids. These pioneer roads, tic first connecting Montreal with the outer norm. were some twenty years later absorbul by the Grand Trunl: Sy§tem. In 1852 the rails were extended M: St. Lambert opposite Montreal. aw: southward to Ronsc's Point. on La\e m Champiain. While this considerably shortened the trip to New \'o7:. it was still no easy journey. entailing tyo cha‘n ges-first. the trip across the river by legrr) to St. Lambert thence by train to Lake Champlain. and a ~second change to the boat going southunrd down Lake Champlain and the Hudson Rixer. In this year the art to incor- poratt the Grand) Trunk-o! Canada was missed and con_stru_ction cpmmtnccd Dozcns of charter: \wro granted in the fifths, but the next pioncu, road to be comp lctcd also dram its traffic largely from Montreal. [hat was the St. By this time the interest in the new method of travel had amounted to a railway mania. and companies sprang up practicalh owr night. applying for thartcrs to build roads here and there mosth for short distumcs, in the M IrItiIms. (fuobcc and Ontario. for at that time IIII- guat north- West was knmm to the fur traders alone, and per. hapa 21 {cu misswnaries hotter. thp sick list. Hope she will soon be Mr. J. MrGirr, Sr., had a wood bee last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Keller and son Bess, spent, Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pat- tersun. POUR-YBAR-OLD CHILD KILLED AT GLAVBRIIG Lavina Smith, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, near (Havering, met with death under very sad circumstances. Mrs. Smith and her two children have been making their home with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lundy, and at noon on Friday last the child followed a lit- tle kitten to a pile of poles in the yard, where she was trying to catch it. It is thought she was climbing up the. pile when a pole about six inches in diameter fell on the little girl and killed her instantly. She was dead when found. ' ‘ In the meantime the Grand Trunk Railway,.by extension and acquisition had covered the Province of Ontario with a network of lines, and had in 1882 absorbed the Great Western Raiiway. It had also extended its main line to Chicago, the great traffic centre of the continent. ' Forseeing the development of “'estern Canada. the management of the Grand Trunk Railway Qvyastem conCeived the idea of constructing a new transcon- tinental line from‘coast‘ to‘coast. it The officer was drilling his men. “Everyone lie on his back, pm his feet in the air and move them as if he. were riding a bicycle.” After a moment. Murphy‘s feet stopped. “What’s the trouble?” asked the of- ficer .“If ye plane, sorr,”. said Murphy “Oi’m coasting.” was to extend through the fertile timber lands uf northern Quebec and Ontario to Winnipeg, on westward through the great prairie pro- vinces, through Yellowhcad Pass and 'nd‘ a practically unexplored mountain kin - dom of the Canadian Rockies, {0 - lowing along the éentral valleys of British Columbia to Prince Rupert. In 1903 the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Dominion Govern- ment agreed to coocperate on' this transcontinental line and to build it in two grand divisions. The western division to be known as‘ the Grand Trunk Pacificnextending from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert. and comprising a mileage of L755 miles. to be built by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The eastern division. comprising 1,804 nnles east of Winnipeg. to be built by the Canadian Government under the supervision oi the Commissioners of the Transcontinental Railway. and leased to the Crawl Trunk Pacific Railway for a period at fifty years. So that. by 19H, the (irand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway together com- prised over 7,500 miles pf rails: Operated boats on the Pacific coast between Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria. Prince Rupert and Alaska ports; huge grain elevators at various important tide- w :ter and lake terminals. and a chain 0' splendid hotels. Out in the Province of Manitoba. throtlgh a rich but sparsely settled section. in 1596, appeared the rails of a hundred mile stretch of road which was to be the nucleus of the trans- continental line of the Canadian North. cm Railway.. Its birth took place in an auspicious hour, for news of the wonderful fertility of the vast Canadian m-st, with its free grants of land, had Spft'lld practically arountlthe worldnand a great tide of immigration was rolling into the country. From Great Britain, Europe and the United States a~con~ Stunt stream of settlers came; towns sprang up over night, as it were; settlers clamored for railways; the line spread as if by magic, westward to Winnipeg and eastward to Port Arthur at the head of lakenavign‘tion: and the lines o: the Northern Pacific Railway in Manitoba were acquired, giving con- nection with the great rail arteries of the \\’estern States, so that in 1901, the Canadian Northern had 975 miles M rails‘ under its control. The steel soon crept up the rich, fertile valley of the North Saskatchewan Rim-r to Edmonton. Lines were ac- quired in the eastern part of Canada anv‘ linked together, and by 1005 the tot»: mileage of the system. amounted to approximately 2,8l6 miles. In the next lwe years the mileage was almost doubled. By 1915 the line had crept westward to Edmonton, pierced the Rockies and proceeded down the Fraser Valley to Vancouver, on the Pacific Coast. At the same time it acquired and extended lines in the east, so that its total mileage in that year amounted to 0,302 miles. The outbreak of war, and its efiects on finance, resulted in a condition which - .‘r-mpcllcd the Government to take our these component parts now lorminfi the Canadian National Railways, but 1until the present, the Grand Trunk ‘and the Canadian' National Railways, while forming a coordinated system, has» each been under its own board of Management. The appointment of Sir Ii. .1“, Thornton and the new Board of IL.-_._itors marks the beginning of the cc,--..p'.ete amalgamation under one Pre- siU-nt and one Board of Management. The past two years have seen a s"3'~‘f;tntial reduction in the deficit of "-0 National lines and there is every reason. to believe that the coming year u”?! see this deficit further reduwd. ,1: is the aim of the new management to make the Canadian National Railways St“. vice conform to such a hi it standard tin: it wiil merit the con .dence and support of the Canadian peOple. No. 9, Glenelg, Report for November. ('l‘no 181.0 for classification: lV'.â€"â€"*F1‘eeman McFaddPn. *Rog. Arnott, *Mima Hal‘graw. *Berlha Ritz‘hiv. *Hmn'gv (toilinsun. *Adolâ€" mm; Lawrvnvn. Ill.â€"*Annio Arnott, *Rog. McFad- dvn. *Jnhn Dunsmour. *Roy Harâ€" gmw. *l)0rnthy Arno”, Kenneth Dunsmoox'. *Or'val Hopkins, *Mary HOpkins. Luuise Jacques, *May An- drews, *Bertha McNally. Sr. I.â€"«V’era Robins, *Eddie Law- rence, *Clarences Hargrave, Evelyn Robins. Jr. Pr.â€"â€"*Freddie Amett. Clara Jacques, *Susie Greenwood, Doris Lawrence. II.â€"-*May Collinson, Grace H01)- kins, *Irene Collinson, Watson Wal- km‘. 81‘ Sr. Pr.â€"â€"Lucy Robins, *Jnhn Col- linson, Agnes Walker. Pr. A.â€"â€"â€"Davie Aljoe, *Clarence Mc- Nally, Gordon Greenwood, Elmer Dunsmoor. ‘ (*) Present every day. Jr. I.â€"â€"*Roderick Dunsmoor, *Margaret Dunsmoor, Annie Walk- Pr. B.â€"Olive Ball, Lillian COllin- s«.m,' *Olive Dunsmom‘. -E. M. park, Teacher. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. James Hepburn returned on Wednesday night. or last week from a two months” visit with her daugh- ter in Boston, and also spent some time in the State of Maine. Miss Marion Marshall visited over the week end with her sister, Mrs. Ivan Edwards, _1n_Tor_opto._ â€" Vfii‘stCDiiâ€"l’ghilin of London is vis- iting her parents, M r. and Mrs. E. W. Limin. Mr. JOhn B. Parker of Guelph is visiting with Messrs. \V. D. Connor and Fred Hintzp. for thron works and enjoying a hunt. Mr. and Mrs. John Burgess mnlqr- ed to Southampton the first of the Week. to Visit the fOI'mor's brothm‘. whn is in poor health. Mrs. Aldcorn. her sistm‘. Miss Mr. James McKimum. of Pricvvillg \‘iSitOl‘I friends in town \\"wlno.-da,\'. Mr. C. A. Robbins. ro:'si«_lcnt mutin- ehh 0n the Provincial Highwaf'. has moved to the new rmidunw mw'tml 0n (.mmtoss sum» 1w Mr. Edward KI‘CSS. Mr. and Mrs. Finlvy Graham of Montreal al‘l'ile in tmvn tn-day and will he the guests Hf Mr. Graham‘s sistvl'. Mrs. \Villiam (Ialdmu fur" a fvw weeks. Mrs. A. \V. H. Limdvr has lwc'n Visâ€" iting I'rivnds in Hamiltun and 'l‘rw- Unto for a fvw wonks. 2.55 2.: :31214 E :Etrizo; .. ._.:: 2751:5553 2.. .1.._..:_.E.T. :3... i: .__: .355:â€" /. J75», 2.: Sac ...:.,_. 3 3:2.» .5225: é. q... .mp2 MP.D0nal¢l Mm'risun. wiw has boon visiting friends in and around town for the past. month. lvt't fur Portage La Prairie on 'I‘nvsday. whore he Will 8' pond a \wwk or two bcfnro returning tn his humv at V Ladnor. B. t_.. 20,000 BARRBLS OF APPLES SHIPPED FROM MEAFORD A dispatch frum Moafm‘d says :It is ostimatml that (burn will lw hu- twwn 1.3.000 mul 20.000 Imrrvls of (”>le shimwl fmm Mvufnwl this war. 'l‘lw largvst shipmvnls \wrv mmlv by MW l'HUcN inc : .luhn Cm's‘m: 000 hill‘l’é‘lS. R. Hl'm'nliulzl ;’.000 bar- I‘é‘ls‘. .-\. .‘Jt'iHIsz‘HV ‘37“ Ivu'fz't'ls‘. and Slanh'y \\'«-hlwl'$m12 haywis. Nurlh- 0'1"; tiny Hm'lm \\'«-m- :1 hi: vrnp 1his yo'm'. "in? air“ Mfr-nsnvix' grnwn in' lhv fumnm‘s nt' Hw va'g'ian Bay «listrivi. " NORMANBY FABMER SUICIDED .lnlm lm-imn a t'al'mvr Hf Alsfoldt. il‘. Nwmun‘xx 'fi‘n-usnz'ig. was i'rmwl hanging: in his 1mm by his elauglntm‘ «tm‘ Iiu‘. |:I~'E \U'c‘k. H“ haul lwvn shMV'vng signs “1' mvan tl'uuhlv fm' sump timv. “UV. My. Drnic-r «11' {Ianâ€" th'l‘ is :1 lll'Ulhl‘l' (if 1110 dm‘vas‘ml. No Word from the North Yet. An Eastern editor says that a man nu! 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There is as much mun- fm't m good pure food as in any, other bless- ing with which man is endowed- Our bread is at the top of the perfect provender program. It is tasty and always uni- form in quality. "Ask for our bread by name. DRY GOODS DEPT. We have a big assort- ment of Men’s and Boys’ Pants, Overalls, Shirts, Smocks, etc. Boys’ ,Overcoats to ar- rive shortly. All sizes. Futile Pains. days Sandy ('nlllcl lmill :lt‘! .rvgm' Let Us Cater to Your CHRISTMAS WANTS Our Stuck of Fresh Fruits . Nuts Peels h Christmas Candies Diamond-budded Walnuts Crystallized Pineapple Candied Cherries. Etc. has been selected 111 antic 1p :1tion of\ our necessities for the II st1Ve Season. 1 on will find these of the Iiest Ouylty and at the Lowest Prices. J. 6; W. McLACHLAN Grocers to Particular People DURHAM I ONTARIO Rolled Smoked Meat, per pound - - - 30¢ Pure Lard, in bulk, per pound - - - - 22c Swift’s Lard, 3 pound pail for - - - - 65c Swift's Lard, 5 pound pail for - - - - 1.10 Finest Domestic Shortening, in bulk, per lb. 20c Pure Red Clover Honey, 10 lb. pail - - - 1.75 Best Japan Tea, in bulk, per pound - - 50c Where we try to please and our motto is “SERVICE” DEAL AT THE WEST END GROCERY Woodhouse’s Tonic for Horses. "on. Cattle and flea: TRY US FOR CANNED GOODS Plain and Fancy China FINEST QUALITY---POPULAR PRICES VOLLETT’S THE PRICES ARE RIGHT SEE OUR DISPLAY SHOP AT