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THE NORTHERN ADVANCE At the meeing of the TottenJha.m Parks Commission held in connec- tion with the celebration on Aug. 7, the repont shows 21 balance of $585.77, made up as follows: net receipt-s from sports, $286.61; meals, $215.07; booths, $41.64; dance, $42.45. The total reecipts for the day amounted to $954.24. W. J. McDe1'mott and son Jack, of Tottenham, left Aug. 27 for To- ronto with Mr. and Hrs. Fred Arnold. Mr. McDermott has been a resident of Tottenham for about forty years. For the last two or three years he has been mail courier orf R.R. No. 2, the contract for which has been taken over by James Walsh. License Inspector Reid was in Penetang last week and secured ve convictions under The Ontario Tem- perance Act. One was ned $200 for manufacturing liquor, one $200 for selling, and three $50 each for drinking liquor in an unlawful place. Mrs. John Madill died on VVednes- day, Aug. 24, at her home in Brad- ford, following a. paralytic stroke the previous evening. Deceased, who was born in Gilford, her maiden name being Ethel 'POI`I`iLt, was in her 42nd year. Bellwood, near Stayner, has been ;l;o1d to Mr. Jas. Graham of Eden- : vale, who will take possession of it this fall. H The farm of the late Chas. D. \ The Collingwood Kiltie band was awarded second prize in Class B. band competition, at the Toronto Exmbition Aug. 31. Brampton was rst. There were eleven entries. Arrangements have been made to hold supplemental Middle and Upper school examinations in Collingwood if a sulcient number of candidates make application. Mid1and s Board of Education has decided to discontinue teaching of music in its schools. News from Various Points in the District told In L . . i Bnef Form SIMC_OE COUNTY HIT HARD BY FIRE LOSS I The new Beeton Pivblic school is Lzggxv practically nished. The four lrooms, two on each oor, occupy the least side, where ample window space has been provided. The oil and varnish nished initerior makes the rooms very bright. Bot-h inside and out the new building compares very favorably wtih modern schools in `much larger places. Luwu. auu vu.:u..uL_y wuuse uves WBFL-3 given in the Great \Var, were un- veiled by His Honor, Lieut.-Governor Cockshutt, Aug. 30. , The chimes include eight bells. Fleur de Iis and Jeanne d Arc has reliefs profusely indicate the coun- try of their origin, which gathers an added romance from the historic as- sociations of Huronia s hillsides and valleys with the story of old France, Midland s St. Margaret s Roman Catholic church chimes, erected as a Memorial to the soldiers of that town and vicinity Whose lives were "i\'P?1 in tho rlrnnf `X7-Jr yarn III'1_ ULlU- The farm is seven miles from Mid- land, and before being acquired by its present owner, was occupied for a. nu_mIber of years by Joseph Maheu. uulu 1.4 tU 15 11.101165 wlue. The horses, cattle and pigs were fortunately outside, but a number of hens were lost with some harness, two pairs of bob sleighs and a quan- tity of implements and tools. \f1' T`In=v-nnhnu nnm-Em-1 crxrnn .'n uuy UL uup1t:1ucuL:i auu LUOIS. Mr. Desroches carried some in- surance, but the loss is a severe nnn Lin: L.LLIl concession 01' 'J.`ll1,V. The tinnbers in the barn were Norway pine, 14 inches square and 60 feet long, and cannot be replaced from this neighborhood. The build- ing measured 40x94 and was prac- xtically full, this year's yield having been bountiful. fl"kn n+mk`I.-. Ctrnn oA..r:n L..:n. __:u. UCCL1 uuuuuuu. The stable was 24x50, built with square timnbers on 16 ft. posts, the ooring being of 3-inch cedar planks from 12 to 14 inches wide. `T119 hnrcnc nofn nnrl v\.~.- w......\ 'The electric storm Aug. 24 was particularly severe in the Township of Tiny where the large barn and: stable of Joseph Desroches was? struck. S'h01`tl,\' after the st0.'n1f started the outabuildings of 3.12`. ..ve -- roches burst into flames, v.12; neighbors were powerless to check. The barn contained the season's crop of hay, oats and wheat from his 100 acres, being part of lot 14 in the 11th concession of Tiny. The timuhp-rs in H-an hnr-n yarn Memorial Tablets, Comer Stones, Markers, Granite and Marble Monuments John F. Murphy, Proprietor John Peterman. Collingwood, has been demonstrating his ability as a builder by constructing to the order of the Ontario Government, an exact model of the Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, says the Coiling- _woodEnterprise. The little model `is a beautiful piece of work and is an exact reproduction of the big stone and brick building. It is built to :1 scale of one half inch and the amount of work involved may easily be estimated by the fact that iihere are fully two hundred and fty windows alone in the building. The painting and glazing was done by W. Wensley. The model will be used for exhibition purposes. BARRHE FMRBLE WORKS 79 Bayfield St. JHEAVY FIRE LOSS IN TINY MIDLAND UNVEILS CHDIES MITIWTUWIIII NH Ill HlllHlIIIHHIIITIIIHIHIIII!IIH1HII1Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll What is this charge for $21.60 for Long Dist'an`ce" telephoning in your expense account? said the Sales` Manager of the Blank Manufacturing Company ft'o_one of their. wide-awake salesmen, Pretty steep, isn _ it '2 Depends on how you look at if. I thought you might raise some question, ,so I figured out how much actual saving for the firm that Long Distance telephoning represented :-4 days salary, $40.83, Railroad fares $18.70, Hotel $15.00, a total of $74.53. Deducting the $21.60 you have an actual cash saving to the firm of $52.93--to say nothing o the extra sales I made in the time saved. More and more `sales and accounting officials are be- ginning to realize that instead of being an extra ex- pense, Long Distance actually saves money and valuable time when intelligently used. 4 Use the Bell to Sel1--or to buy. Most `good Sales- men realize that Station-to-Station fcalls often answer just as well as the more expensive Person-to-Person messages. 3 a`? Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station ' Notoan Egparse Little Willie Willis is becoming a. cynic. He says all the good little boys, who keep their clothes clean and remember not to play rough, are not really good, but only scared. JJULUVUUL UL LIUDDJUIU UUUIB U1 ziuuauluu is 431, and While the month only registered 276, it was 23 hours ahead of the average for the month. The Warmest day occurred on the 16th, with a. temperature of 93, and the lowest on the 9th, with 49.2. Possibly the coolest day was the 8th, when tenlperatures ranged from 49 to 70. Almost every day ran over 75, and fully half the month had a temperature of 80 and over. Only seven days were below normal. Dninfnll urns r1nnAn.v`l'lu knlnww vnosvo '1`he violators of t.he Collinigwood by-law which says thou shall not run tlhy garden or lawn hose except with- `in certain hours in the morning of the (lay and certain" hours in the `evening of the day, were scheduled to appear in court on .\Io4ndny morn- `ing at ten o clock. There were `eleven on the list, but four had cashed in before the appointed hour, an even dollar being separated from :them. A similar separation .-ol1ow- ed with the otlhers, the afzgregate result being a net extraction of eleven bills and a notice that the law had been broken, a practice that `must not be separated or further penalties would be incurred. The `reason assigned for the court pro- ceedings is t-he shortage of water.- .Collin'gwood Bulletin. Llullllitlu Rainfall was decidedly below nor- mal; 1.47 rain fell, and normal is 2.77 inches. oeunuur), J.U.l'Uul.U. Seven of the balls were donated by the Catholic population of the town and contributed as follows: K. of C. bell, Potvin `family bell, O Shea family bell, Grise family bell, Laurandeay family bell, O Hare bell, Syndicate bell. The eighth bell do- nated by subscriptions from all the citizens is the Memorial bell, on which is inscribed the names of the fallen who belonged to Uhe town, some sixty in all. Every day in August Simcoe County had sunshine. The total number of possible hours of sunshine .ie 421 -and xxrhiln thn rnnnH1 nnlv -uuuaeu it rrencmman OE France. Following the oicial ceremony. {with Mayor -W111. Duncan presiding, ;addresses were given by His Honor, `,the Lieute-uance-Govern-or of On- tario, His Grace Archbishop McNeil. Toronto; 311`. J. P. Downey, Orillia; IDI`. Raikes, Senator Bennett, Manley `Chew, M.P., Rev. C. W. \Vatch, Methodist pastor, Midland. The ser- mon was prezx-ched by Rev. Fauher Francis Carroll, of St. Augustine's Seminary, Toronto.` Qnvnn nf lhn hall: vnrn Annofnel i St. Margaret's priest, Father Castex. himself a Frenchman of France. I T<`n1lnw'inu Hm nmnani ...........m.... llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllml Telephone 734 l.,..---...- .--_.....--- ., .._\,.... .,..,,..`.`, I Barns and crop owned by VV. R. `McLean, Jarratt, were destroyed On `Aug. 2-1, when the barn was struck ,hy lightning. Mr. McLean s loss is `over $5,000. The barn was lled !wiIh Uhe ser-.son s grain of whom j2,000 bushels not threshed, and ':fort_\ mns of hay. All the animals were in the fields. -but some fowl were lost. His loss is partially covered by insurance. n `In tho sauna nnizrhhnrhnnrl ihnrn E ULIIIIELLZB. r John Clark's barn on the 8 con- zcession, Medonxe, was struck, but `did not take fire. The corner of the .barn was shattered, however, and :1 lhole made in the ground. I Fhna T'nIO1o1xvn'H n hnvn nn ihn 7111 gJ:\RR;\'T F.~\R.\IER'S LOSS $5,000 __.._ __..1 -_.-_ ..._..___x L_. 117 n lb [Hll`lId-lly UL'\L`l'C'Ll U) lllhlllillllll. ` In the same neiglmorhood there .were several burns struck by lightn- [ing on the same day with smaller damage. I Tnhn (`.1211-1: : hnrn nn than R nn- IIUIU lllillltf Ill lll\f ',IU|lllll. l { Chas. KelL1ew_ell`s burn on the 7th `concession was badly (lmnaged when lslnxclc, but did not. take flre. I Tzwo animals in a eld at Mr. lCook`s, Creigl1ton,'\ve1'e killed by a bolt of liglllning. The rail fence on .\1'ch. Beat.on s farm, Coulson, was struck and took fire. A long stretch of the fence was destroyed. ! Norman Epworth, who played 1a- crosse in Cookstown this sum-uier, has returned to his home in New- -marliet. In the last game of the season, with Alliston, while in the act of picking up the ball he ran against the end of his stick when it stuck into the ground and as a re- sult one rib was cracked and an- other splintered.