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I /ksfyetlcm SUtoonce. "TBUTH BEFORE FAVOR." - PRINCIPLEb NOT MEN.' VOL 33 No. Flesh-erton, Ont., Thursday November G IQ1C3 W- H. THCBSTON Eugenia Paragraphs Messrs. J. Campbell, W. A. Gordon, and A. Cameron attended the Presbytery at Orangeville/as delegates from the Eugenia Church. Mr. Willie Gibson, of Cttaract, suent a couple of daysthis week with his grand- mother and other relatives here. Mies Irene Walker has returned home from a month's visit: with friends at Cat- aract, Kiin, and other places. Mr. Halatead of Toronto, apent a week with his cousin. Mis* Halsiead, of thf Eugenia House. Mr. Earl Gordon of Hamilton was the guest of bis cousin, Mr. W. A. Gordon. Mrs. F. T. CUT has returned from.her visit in Orillia. Dr. Roszell, of Maxwell, was a caller in our burg on Monday. Mrs. Johnson, of Griersville, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Leonard Lalnuer. Mr. and Miss Kliott, of Markham, were the gueiti of James Carson, over Sunday. Sadie Pedlar and Lily Lawlor spent the week end wiih friends at Epping. Miss Pearl Cairns, of Ceylon, is visit- ing her uncle here, at present. Mr. Wni. Hill, of Mirkdale, and Mrs Wclton. of Flesherton, visited the Eugenia House, over Sunday. Mrs. Win. Pedlar and daughter, Annie, of Rock Mills, were the guests of MM. W. Armstrong, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Donaldson, of Toronto, were the guests of Mr. and Mn. Henry \VillUinsy the past week. Mr. and Mrs. McKeclmie, of Mark- dtle, visited the Utter's parents, Mr. aid Mrs. S. Finher. Mr. S. Fisher intends moving hit fiimily to Toronto t> live. Micses Allieand Nea Williams attend- ed a j"Hy Hullowe'en party at Miss Amanda. Stewart's, Flesherton, on Fri- day evening last. (jui'e number from here hive goue to hunt deei up north. Their "dears'' liere are anxious for iheir safe return. Misa Etta Latimer entertained a number of her friends to a Hindi party on Tuesday evening. There will not be service iu the Pi-esbyteriau :hurch next Sabbath inoin- m?, as Proton is holding anniversary cervices . Mrs. Win. Uyslop visited friends at Ceylon, the pat week. Mr. McDonald, of Ceylon, was the guest of friends here, recently. Miss L'jusia Hyslop is spending COJple of weeks at Ceylon with friends. Mr. W. A. Uortlon spent Saturday with frien ds in Shelburne. Durham \Ve learn that Mr. McCaus!aiid has re- nijfnad the pastorate of the Baptist church here, but the resignation hms not yet been accepted. He has been hero three or four yearn, and we alwaya underatood he was giving good service. The wet weather haa interfered a great deal with the contractors who are engaged in moving the town h !i. li wil> take some time yet to put it in place. Should the weather be favorable for three or four days, w hope to see it landed. The men are all exerts, but they can- not woik satisfactorily in wet weather. We arepleasd to report the continued and i .tjiid improvement iu the condition of Mr. Fred McClocklin, wbo was in- jured at the Dundalk station a couple of weeks ago. Mrs. McClocklin has been with him snce the accident, ,-mJ since lsl issue has enjoyed * visit from his family . Mr. McClocklia is now out of danger, and recovering us t ist as could be expected. Chi utricle. Forty-four years ago, on Ociober IB, isr.'i, there came a fall of six inches of snow which did not go away until the following May. Farmers were caught with i-.iii4ti.es and turnips in the ground, which were uot dug until spring. The MI. ' protected them from frost and they were not much damaged. Cree- more Star. It is very singular to note that there is not journalist nor a printer in any of the jaila or penitentiaries of the Dominion. There ate preachers and doctors and lawyers aud every other class. The journalist is conspicuously abseul, although there are many people who would like to see some of them within the caged corridors. Kimberley Budget Mr. A be Me Master of Eugenia is thresh- ing clover in this vicinity at present. Mr. Jno. Reid of Sti) ner is renewing old aojuaiiranceu in this vicinity, A monster fowl supper and bop was held at the "Traveller's Home" one night l.i -t week. Mr. Jno. Plewes niaJe a business tiip to Collingwood, on Friday last. Miss Millie -Mi-Mullen of Eugenia vis- ited vtith her sister, Mrs. Jasper Stuart. Quite a number of our local ninmxlx left on Thursday last fur the Parry Sound district to hunt the antlered beauty. Mr. Gco. Hutchin-son attended the Sunday School convention in < >vrcu Sound last week. The sacriiiieutHl service was held in the Methodist church on Sunday morning last. Mr. Douald Wallace and Ge-o. Burritt attended the quarterly Board meeting at Eppinq on Monday afternoon. Mr. Ezra Fawcett and Chas. Wickens, who are working in the Armstrong camp at Lady Bnnk, visited at their respective homes here recently. A very enthusiastic railroad meeting held in our burg on Monday evening Although a veiy wet nulir. a i/ood- ly number wore present, and much im- portant business was transacted. \Ve hope that all the places along the propos- ed line will wake up and d<: their utmost to push the project. Mr. Win. Gordon of Eugenia was :i caller in our burg uti Monday. Two a'ae racoons were trapped in this vicinity 1 i-i week. Portlaw Mr. (ieo. Th uipsiin of (.hatsworth who came down about two weeks ago to visit his brother here, has been very ill since, but w< are ijlad to know ho in consider- ably improved. Mr. and Mrs. K. T. White have both been Buffeting from painful felons. Mr. W. was recovering when his wife was afflicted in the same way, and had the finger lanced. Later it was found neces- sary to operate ou the li.iuil. This was done lifter administering chloroform. Mr. H. Uolinan has been confined to bed for some days with something akin to lagrippe. Mr.s. Jamie-ton is visiting at the home of her son, William G. Uev.Mr.Leece of 1'iiceville is ei peeled to preach next Sunday in Mount Xi.ui church in the interest of Missions. The pastor will take the same subject the following Sunday. A band of young "foreigners " paraded our main streets on hallowe'eii. Tbey were very orderly but appeared to be having a howling time. Ceylon Mr.) Norman McLcnd of liellcville arrived home last week. No place like Ceylon, Noruian. Misses Mary and Georgeiia McLaugh- l.ni vinited i i. -i i friend, Mrs. Hittes, of Dundalk, over Sunday. Miss Pearl Cairns has rvturnuil after spending a fortnight with Toronto uiul other friend*. Miss Lilly K-ulley is very ill at present. Mr. McKinnon, of Norval, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Archie McMullen. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Cairns is p.xirly this week. This village was uliocii-d on Mniulrty, when word w.is receivc.1 that Mrs. M.i'i'iii 1 . (nee Alliu Aslulown), had died on Sunday at her home in C'leveland. A little excitement was caused in our burg on Friday evening last, when Murray Legate lit a Hallowe'en lantern and hung it in the window, then left the room. A shurt time after, the family in the kitchen heard a noise. I'IHUI in- vestigation they found the lantern and curtains all on tire. An alarm was m.-ulc and the tire was soon put out. Had it gained live minutes more head- way, the chances are it would have been impossible to save the building. Four distinguished German visit.. rs were t the prison farm, Guelph, lust weoS. They were there under the special authority of Emperor William, Canada's pritou tystein having gained reputation sufficient to induce the German Govern- ment to tend a commission to this county to investigate. The commissioner* were accompanied by Hon. W. J. Uaoua atd Warden. Giluiour, The Rural School [A paper prepared by W. W. rUmage, R. R. No. 1, Varney, Egremont town- ship, and read by Inspector Campbell at the recent Teachers' Convention in Hanover. 1 The rural School Fair of the Town- ahip of Egremont, said to be tiist in the counry was held at Yeoville on the 17>h day of Sept. last. The attendance, con- sidering the unfavorable weather, was good, 400 of the young hopefuls and their parents tilling rather uncomfort- ably the defunct cheese factory building, aa one wag put it. Pressure is incidental to a chesse factory anyway. The expression of opinion in regard to thn benefit to he deiived from the grow- ing of plot* of grains and roots, holding of a fair and other requirements, teems to be prelty evenly divided, some con- tending that the children have unfortu- nately too much to do in the ordinary run of work on the farm to bother wiih -such a "we bit" as one rod square and that, the time taknn up might be better applied in the study of the various sub- jects that are now provided for them in their school work, the time of attendance there for many of them, being sadly too short as it is Ouiheothcr hand it is pointed out in this regard that the urow- ing of ploti! all their own, will give them an interest in apiculture! pursuits and so help to keep the lu.ys at least on the farm and will also inculcate the desire f beiui: tidy and cleanly in their meth- ods. There ..- one feature that I can not speak loo highly of, th it is in the selection of sheaves of ^i-iin by the children, a plan that was inaugurated some 15 years ago by Prof. J. W. Kobertson, when he offered prizes to the children attending school, f<-r the bent sheaves selected from the standing crop (our Mr. W. L. Dixon's boy l.eing a winner of one of thesa prizes ) From this tirst start sprang the "Canadian Seed Growers' Association" with hand- (|Uitrters at Ottawa, which required of its members to pick mr from the standing gram 17 lb*. at least, utticient to sow | of an acre the following year, the best heads of that plot tint conformed to a certain type or ideal and then selected the following yesr, the re- mainder of the seed "f the plot after three years selection, being registered and catalogued for sale as "Impi'oted' or Elite seed. " Thu beueri'.s of this selection 1 can personally well attest to, having carried on 111 is seed selection for 12 yrs., the difference showing to the last drill mark (which needed not to be pointed out to the visiting Department Judxe)be"tweeir (.he "hand selected" and "general crop" seed, the former be'inn more rooust, bigger heads and betu r all root d from selentiou. thus backing up the Darwinian theory yf the survival of the strongest and liitest, all _;ood comes from selec'ion. I was once privileged to hear I'rof. Kobeitson repeat, this sentence mai.y times iu an address. From a monetary point of view the "gettiuu into" ;i good laying strain of Barred Plymouth Fowl from the eggs provided to six of the scholars of each school, is a good thing, which is to b* hoped, will give both boys and giils a growing interest in '.his profitable in- dustry, neglected as it has been in the pasl. As to the wisdom of asking little tots to compete in the making of fancy tea aprons, preserves or light cake, I have my doubts. Ir. may lead to fraud and implant iu theycung mind deception. In this connection one little guileless and hitherto innocent m.iiden said "my mamma is going to make me a i.iee cuke for the Show." The disappointment experienced too !>y the children m not getting prizes is somewhat embittering to thoir young uuphilosophical minds. After all of their trouble through the summer, instead of making t them strive a -.-nine grown-ups would do to better the conditions of another time, they are despondent and say they won't try. I can M uct-iy congratulate the Agricultural Department on the new venture, as any- thing which pertains to : he education of the children in any branch very properly belongs I think to the Educational Department. The fair was a success in point of numbers and would have been consider- able augmented had the weather not had the weeping propensities of an old-lime Teachers' Convention day. Aa it was, a "golden opportunity" wag lost in the occasion not being improved upon, by some address or lecture given or words of eucouragemeut to the children on how best to improve their plots on the set- liny of them iculy for next year's operations. This feature no doubt will and should be improved upon in the future, in order to get full benefit from the competition, I em-fit hotter than that of a sordid nature. Collingwood And Local Option The town of C, .Hint-wood appears to be enforcing local option fairly well, if we are to judge from the following items taken from last week's Bulletin : Twenty dollars and costs was the fine handed out to two gentlemen who were charged with being drunk ->u .Saturday. They settled ami the town treasury was increased f4!.50 as a result i f sime. Acting Chief Johnson seized a cane of Joe Seagram's "8:{" last week and as the person to w-h.im it is consigned fnile-l to claim same, it will be placed witli the 13 dozens of G. &, W. which ilia chief is awaiting orders fr<mi headquarters as to its disposal. In the pa-t three months Acting Chief Johnson haa seized and confiscated -." dozen !j tiles of whiskey. Charles Pelch appeared in the police court on Friday morning to answer to a charge "f stealing a gallon jug of whiskey from Mr. John Stubus. Pelch had asked him for a drink and he invited Pelch in and tieated him. Mr. Stubbs went out for a few M unites ami when he returned both Pelch and the jug of whiskey wete missing. Magistrate Hgg strongly cti'icixed Mr. Stubbs for giving Pelch drink, but from the evidence he found Prlch guilty and lined him 83 and costs. The tine was paid. Accident Near Durham A serious and distressing accident oc- curred at tile C. P. R. crossing at Button Hill, shortly before o'clock on Tuesday night, resulting in injury to such an ex- tent to Mis. John Hey of Bentinck.that the injuries may prove fatal and cuu<e her death. NVlii'e driving homeward with her hus- band and U-year-o!d son, Kl butfgy was struck by tlm C. IV U. coming from the same direc Keuy was preparing to jump locomotive struck their outtit, but wni hurled to the ground with ,;reitt force.the fill fracturing her skull and causing severe scalp wounds. Mrs. Uesy in lying iu an unconscious condition at the homo of Mr. Dim McAuliffe ii; towj where Dr. .l.iiniuson has rfi-eu; ly^jdB Bfel and her condition is ~'\i^' t'HJKjp Mr. Reay and Fred were tossed several feet by the force of the collision, the boy being throwu clean over the fence, meet in^ at an angle. Stnnge to say neither were scarcely injured while the vehicle was smashed t j matchwood. The horse also escaped. How the accident happened at first is hard to tell. It seems that the son ws driving, bur when Mrs. Reay saw the freight approaching she asked her hus- band to handle the reins. He did so and in attempting to drive into the ditch, one of the ruins broke. This movement put a greater leverage on the other line wiih the result that the horse turned in th e wrong direction. Collision was inevitable and Mrs. Keay prepared to jump, but w-i-s too late. Review . Mrs. Rea has since died from the effect of her accident, without regaining con- sciousness. Ed. Advance. Flesherton Planing - And Chopping Mills J I am now prepared to do chopping ' every day iu the week except Sundays and every week in the year. Bring along your gristii. Our sash and door factory is always it your disposal for anything you want in nurlme planing, matching, etc. Floor iii'- r . sash and doom, and all house fur- nishings supplied promptly and at leas- .nuble rates. Get estimates. T. Blakeley, Prop. Febir> 13 ly Fifth Division Court County of Grey Following are datei for 1913: Wednesuuy, Feb. 1! Dundalk vVrdnesday, April Hi Fltsherton \Vediiesday, June 1H Dundalk Wednesday, Aug. 27 Flesberton Wednesday. < >ct. 15 Duudalk Saturday, Dec. Flesherton W. J. BELLAMY, Clerk, Flesherton, Ont. 6 W C A Splendid Stock from which you may readily make A Satisfactory Se- lection. We car- ry Photo Supplies. W. A. Armstrong, Jeweler FLESHERTON, ONT. Enormous Increase. Subscribe to The Family ilenld and Wekly Star, of Montreal, <>re renewing earlier than ever this season. Tlio sub- scription receipts for October were over 80 per cent, ahend of October 19ll>. Tha Family Herald grows in popularity year afcer year. It is the big dollar's worth beyond doubt, and dexervex it* immense circulation. Anyoiiu that does not receive The Family Herald should give it a trial for 1914. H.-eve Monary arrived home Monday noon from a lengthy trip to the West. Mr fou.id things very tight t\n far as money is concerned. Nearly every farmer is land poor and uot a few hcmesfeads hopelessly incumbered by purchases of atock, implements and possibly another piece of land. Loan companies and im- plement firms are pressing hard for their money, forcing hurried sales of wheat, which has caused a big drop in price. As far as real estate is concerned there is veiy little doing and not much of an im- provement for a year, and only then wiih another good crop.- run d Valley Star. Everything in Our Line Up=To-Date, such as Cranberries, Oysters, Bre;id, Cheese, and general groceries. Flax seed. Linseed meal, feed and Hour ~ all kinds. A car load due to arrive in about 10 days Get our prices at the FLESHERTON grocery. 1 W. BUSKIN Now Is The Time To Leave your Leather Tops to get Rubber Bottoms sewed on. Custom Work and Re- pairing as usual, Agent for Dominion Express Money Orders Thos. Clayton BOWLER. 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