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Durham Review (1897), 2 May 1901, p. 1

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oll you A d OFFICE $ | ILLINERY OM S nnection No. 10 NNON. NCO LAWRENCE Town. & ym RDON, OPENING | wupty 2y mt y ty ut l ORGAXS nd and Wil } W USIO) t C. M ons That LS1€T the ket CoMFORT FOR LADIES.â€"We have seâ€" cured the sole agency for Durham for the sale of the B. & I. Corsets, the newest and most comfortable corset made, They are made on the bias and are bias filled. _ Straight fronmt, erect form and short waist. Fvery pair warâ€" ranted, positively nonâ€"breakable over hips or at waist line. _ Price $2.00, at J. A. Hunter‘s, The Blg S tore. Jimmy Fax, the comic singer, was at Singhampton a short time ago singing at a Scotch concert, and while reading a Scotch number his false teeth broke in his mouth. Me was therefore unable to give his last two numbers on the program and the committee deducted $10 from his pay. Jimmy is undecided whether h> will quit singing Scotch songs or purchase a set of steel teeth, AT ABERDEEXN.â€"Divine service will be held in the Aberdeen church on Sanâ€" day evening next, May 5th, at 6 p. m. Service will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Graham, of Dornoch. AxoTHuER SoctETty â€"Mr.Harris, on reâ€" presenting the Canadian _ Order _ of Home Circles, has been in town this week trying to organize a local circle and notwithstanding the abundance of fraternal societies flourishing or fading here already, he has succeeded in orâ€" ganizing one with about 20 members. Ax UxrrvoxKy Faxtuyâ€"Last spring the houss of Mr. Kemp, 10th con, Sulâ€" livan, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, While trying to sawve some clothing Mr, Kemp‘s hands were badly burned, in conseâ€" quence of which he was off work for several weeks. As if that was nob sufficient hard luck for one year, anâ€" other calamity befell this family on Wednesday evening last week. _ Mr. E. D. Eyans, of this village was returnâ€" ing nome on the day mentioned, and Miss Kate McKinnon, of Sullivan, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs Black, of Durham, was returning home with him. They had got a little way past Peabody school when one of Mr. Kemp‘s boys, a lad about 10 years old, jumped up on the back of the rig. The cover being up neither Mr, Evans nor Miss McKinnon saw the lad get on the rig. The horse commenced to go down a grade at a smart trot when they heard fwrortE» Hors®kâ€"Mr. Jas. Paton, Swinton Park, is bound to be to the front as a horseman and has purchased from Mr, Wi@. Colquhon, Mitchell, the tine horse "Royal Buteman," _ With the price of horses running high and remount _ staitions _ being established which will likely keep the price up for years, too much attention cannot be given to the raising of the right breeds. Considerable work has been done last week and the beginning of this toward beautifying the grounds of the Methoâ€" dist church and parsonage by planting trees and vines. a cry, and stopping the horse quickly, Mr. Evans found the boy who had got on the rig, had got between the spokes of the wheel and had been turned and twisted till he could hardly extricate the lad., The accident occured near Mr. Kemp‘s house and Mr. Evans carried the injured boy home. _ His rLight l(:g was broken in two places above the knee. â€" Medical aid was speedily sumâ€" moned and the unfortunate boy is doâ€" ing nicely as can be expected under the circumstances.â€"Chesley Enterprise. NoTticrâ€"Those indebted to the band for skating tickets, etc., will oblige by immediate settlement, We offer the REeviEw to New Suabâ€" scribers from now to Jan. 1, 1902, for 50 ets,. _ Will friends oblige by making‘!this known ? TrEr® SrRravixo.â€"Bluestone or sulâ€" phate of copper at Darling‘s Drug Store, at right prices. There are lots of men who will stop and visit for a long time withany body. Sp Clover & Timothy seed at Darling‘s Drug Store. Buy your garden seed by the oz at MacFarlane‘s Drug Store. A very vain man trying to appear modest is a very funny sight. Dressmakers are about as much abusâ€" ed as newspaper men. Adaitional Locals on Page 4. Maple Syrup as J. A. Hunter‘s, Ladies‘ Black Kid Gloves st Giant‘sâ€" Timothy seed for $2.00 per Bushel at Darling‘s Drug Store. VOL. XXIII. NO. 18 g@%eeeeeeeceece.%% P : Local and District News. : dgasasseassessesececeees se e o Epwix McCrocku®, Secy.â€"Trea AS. As we stepped off the train at Jackson we found we had as a fellowâ€"traveller Mr. J. Irvin, who was in Durham last winter and who directed us to the offices of tha Peninsular Portland Coment Co. where we found our friend Cowham deeply immersed with some Rogers City gentlemen, in cement talk of course, their purpose being to get tne great Cement King to take hold of some "propos~ ition‘"‘ in their neighborhood, offering, we may say in passing, a much larger proportion of tke stock than Durham has been asked to give for promotion. It was out of the question to get to the works that night, but we were fayored with a view of the plans, elevations. drawings, ete., from which the Durâ€" ham works are to be built, and the sight of these, making provision for every beam, bolt, nut or bracing, giving eyery possible structural information to the experts who work from them, in a measure prepared us for the big realities of che Michi. gan works we had come to see, Next morning the Cincinatti and Northern R. R. took us the 18 miles to which was, lass than one year ago, the totally insignificant hamlet of Woodstock, which has not been slow to drop the historic name fom one, which tells of the great commercial article now produced in its vicinity from the natural resources so long utterly useless, On the 15th of May 1900 the first sod was turned in preprration for the Peningular Co‘s works and since that time, â€"less than a year ago â€"not only has vast works been built, enormous machinery installed and operatâ€" ing, but there has been begun the nucleus of a thriving town, to which railways are pleased to cater, From Detroit to Jackson is a 76 mile ride on the Michigan Central, through a fine country, passing pretty Ypsilanti and Aun Arbor, and following the pretty and sometimes romantic banks of the Haron river. The marl here is found in an extensive lake and is not quite such good quality as ours testing only about 96 per cent of carbonate of lime while Durh am vests run slightly over 98, and we have been assured that no marl in the world exceeds this. Many cement works that haye been eminently successful with marl testing as low as 70, would haye been much more so had they had the superior quality of our deposits. To describe the trip there is foreign to our purpose though it presented features interesting enough to a stayâ€"atâ€"home editor to tempt him to expand, a failure by the Palmerstonâ€"Stratford train to connest with the mainâ€"line west at the latter place made the journey almost a day slower, but there "were others" amongst them being a rice besprinkled bridal party who boarded the train at Holstein and misery loves company. Besides the delay gave us a daylight trip through Ontario, a few hours in presty London, the passage through "the tunnel" as Sarnia and a glimpse of Detroit. Durham and Detroit are scarceâ€" ly comparable, Woodward Avenue is abead of our main street, Schafer‘s 14 story building is bigger than our Big Store and we won‘t be satisfied till our Town Hall has a big "Welcome" strung across the front of it. but we are free to state that Durham can show no such dirty back lanes, as the dozens the traveller sees from the train on entering the city. We have some idea now where Mayor Pingree, of potato patch fame was to get fertilizers for his plots. Besides the making of cement, the Peninsular Co, haye actually begun the manufacture of building blocks for residences or indeed almost any structure and the simplicity with which any particular design or finish can be reprodrced is surprising. _ Almost any coloring too can be introduced, thus gratifying different tastes and giying variety to different parts of the same building if required. There is no limit at present in sight to the uses in which cement orcement concrete can not be applied. Alrealy it has been used for residences in all styles, bridges, monuments, breakwaters, silos, posts, paving, drain tiles, lining of battleships, canal banks, foundations, roofing, flooring with dozens of etcetâ€" era‘s, and the more it is used there seems to open continually new fields for its use, The spare time of the forencon was spent in the testing rooms, the laborâ€" atory, the offices, the machine shop, the blacksmith shop, the large and capacious boiler and engine rooms, ete.etc,. Testing goes on regularly by the most precise and scientific methods, the machine shopis thoroughly equipped and could turn a 12 inch shaft, the bases for the boilers and engines are built of pyramids of ‘solid cement concrete, and of so solid a nature that the hand can feel no jar even with the 1000 horse power engine in full motion, The engineâ€" room would delight the heart of any engineer so capacious, so light, so clean. The great fly wheel 18 ft in diameter going 107 revolutions a minute and weighing 57000 lbs driving a generator of 1000 horse power, ighe most conspicâ€" uous object, but amother of 500 h. p. is at the other side of the room and motors of varying strength are everywhere. Perfect provision is made against stopâ€" page, and if one power should get disabled, another couid "keep things movâ€" ing." This duplication is one of the things provided at many points, for no stoppage can take place, where so much delay is involved. The whole yast enterprise is the product of thoughtful and scientific minds, made as near perfection as American ard German skill, knowledge and experience can furnish. The mill to be â€"built in Darham will be built by the same men and it is surely matter for gratulation that the fresh and added experience of these men is to be utilized in the building of the Durham works, _ : * IN SUCCESSFUL â€" OPEBRATIN A Like Plant to be E3â€" tablished in Durham VIST TO ROTARY CEMENT WORKS PDuUTNG DURHAM, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1901. e m Review. /: The ignition and combustion of this coal dust furms a most intense heat of we forget how many 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the whirling clay in its passage down this blazing hell gets burned to crisp smail black "clinkers" which fall through a grating at the lower end, And where now? Into an endless chain of iron buckets, floating in a cold water ditch down below which conveyance takes them hundreds of feet to another spot, dumps them into chutes or piles and passes round for more clinkers. This carrier takes 22 minutes to make one round. The clinkers go to the Krupp Balls Mills tor treatment, then tothe Tube mills where it is ground into the commercial proâ€" duct and carried ftar away by an ingen ious process we dare not describe to the storehouse. Thus from its resting place in the bottom of the lake as marl to its restâ€" ing place in the store house as Portland cement we hbave very imperfectly traced the process 4@ manufacture, the wonderfal teature ot which is that it is no where touched by human hand or manual tools. Now having got the wet mixture into the "rotary " at one end let us see what is going on at the other, and following the same course we will beâ€" gin at the opposite side of the works where coal is being unloaded trom cars to grind ng and @rying room. When dried it is turther ground into fine dust by elaborate machinery, and is then blown by a powerful electric motor inâ€" to the depressed end of the rotary in which we left the wet clay. We could fill a few columus more Wwith descriptive material, about the laboratory, the big smoke stack and the adaptability of means to end in many instances. Enough has been said we hope to give our readers some idea of what we are to have in Durâ€" ham. â€" The grounds are all fenced in, lit outside with are lights, while inâ€" candescent lights are everywhere throughout the machinery where reâ€" quired. Truck tracks are to be made from the machine shop to every part of the works, so that heavy articles for repair, it necessary, can be conâ€" veniently moved. System and order and cleanliness are visible at every point. aMs ggt age on u1c ais aye ae aje a j ae afc ts 11B tE e afe tE uaye e ue ybate d(E ie age dX ‘frg:\'-'hm?fiw'n ie reaimdinina‘mâ€"roirror‘ewrorira‘¢â€" co‘râ€"‘caira ra‘¢a‘lmi‘r ?pvlwlwluyulwlulavlul«vluluyulaulululuy F ':'_ :)Qi . l‘ <1 :Q " * * 0‘_7 :n i'.‘, :. ‘: '1 (:’07 L« * " # Cw 2% This is no ephemeral structare of a day or & year. â€" As Pres. Cowham said â€"it can‘t be burned, it can‘t be movyed , you can do nothing but make cement with it. Again we urge as many as possible to secure some of the stock beâ€" fore it is too late, as the dividends are ory. Mr. T. Harris left on Tuesday for Tiverton in response to a telegram from his wife, whose mother isjvery dangerously ill. we Miss Maggie Bell, ot Dornoch, spent a few days last week pleasantly with friends in town. Miss Minnie Fox entertained a numâ€" ber of her friends at her home on Thursday evening last. Mr. Rod. McFarlane spent Friday and Saturday with friends in Owen Sound. He rode a lady‘s wheelfback and reports a pleasant trip. Miss Alice Watson,. of Rainy River, is visiting her friend, Miss 8. McKinâ€" non, this week. Mr. Geo., Dixon, of Fairwell,] spent Monday night at Mr. A. McKinnon‘s and went west on morning train, Mrs. Charles Urquhart, who has been visiting her parents here for the past month, left Monday _morning {for her home in Beeton. Mr. Wes. Hunt is home sick from Woodstock. honestlyv believe sure to be satisfactâ€" ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Arthur Laidlaw came home last Saturday, freed for a time from books and examinations Mr. and Nrs, John Watson, late of Artemesia, were guests at Mr. Wim. Mountain‘s for a couple of days this week, before proceeding to London where they will take up residence, Two of theit sons have profitable emâ€" ployment there, Corporal tGieo, Ledingham, the dashâ€" ing young soldier who saw seryice with the Strathcona Horse in South Africa, left Chesley station yesterday for Vanâ€" couver, . Some of our young ladies heaved a regretful sigh as the handâ€" some corporal left town. Like the Jacobite ladies who fall in love with Bonme Prince Charlie they say * Will ye no come Enterprise. Wisk srtt A SHEWELL & LENAHAN Special attractions for the Christmas and New Year‘s trade. A Catt Respoctfultly Soticited WHOLE NO. 1206 Old customers are cordially invited to call and see us in our new store where we hope to make the acquaintance of many new friends. Happy VYow Year The public of Durham aud 8. Grey are informed that the business heretofore carried on by J. A. Shewell will now! be carried on in the new premises in the McIntyre block next the Bank under the firm name of Shewell & Lenahan. SHEWELL & LENAHAN. left town. Like the who fall in love with Charlie they say * Will back _ again."â€"Chesley

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