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not completed by that hour then anâ€" other special session will have to be called. Mayor Hamliton remarked on the tendency to waste time and talk at late sessions until the members become too weary to do justice to the business. The remedy would seem to be to hok afternoon sessions. With afterncon aesslonsthemlsnotendencytoume- mmc.mdamotbewmeefingis not liahle to become a "show" for the tewdm}cokformhrtunmenttmm Mayor Hamilton, of Haileybury has made formal announcement that there will be no more midnight sessions of the Hailleybury town coouncil. Adâ€" Schumacher Three Points in Interâ€"Town Bowling In the interâ€"town bewling league on Friday evening last Schumacher took E. Angrignon following are the scores:â€" SCHUMACHER I have in my pessession a list of rents for a certain month which is procf of what is going on here." Councilior Marcotte says that relief has been administered in a most irâ€" regular manner in Chelmsford. He blames Mayor Louis: Roy and other councillors for not being aware of what is going on. There are at least a dozen persons on relief who are not entitled to it, says Councillor Marcotte. Councillior Marcotte told of two cases where two individuals who are living in the same house, for whom the govâ€" ernment pays individual rents cf $10 per month each. â€" He also saysâ€"he knows of other cases where people, who were ncot on relief then, had their rent paid by the government. He also cited cases where families were receivingn relife for more children than they had. The irregularitiecs he suggests also s#read beyond the town. He suggests that the reeve of a townâ€" | ship in the district is on relief, | @Dyâ€"amnd every sort of event.". The ‘council decided to refer the | question to the finance committee for a report at a later meeting, expressing their appreciation of the work which the board has done, especially that of the secretary. ie# Dept.: of Toronto, Ocuncilior Marâ€" cotte stated:â€""Knowing of many cases here. where meonies are being misâ€"spent on relief purposes, espcially on rents paid by the government, I hereby ask the relief commissions to make an inâ€" vestigation. I am not going to draw any panticular case to your attention, for I know that whoever will look into this, will find serious fraud in the Chelmsford, a town not far from Sudâ€" bury, is the latest place where serious charges of relief frauds are elleged. Councillor O. Marcotte has resigned from the Chelmsford council as a proâ€" Ftest against what he alleges to be seriâ€" ous frauds in connection with relief. He also asked for an investigation by the Government, and Relief Inspector Le Baron Dablee, of North Bay, was sent to Chelmsford last week to make les into thesituation. In a letâ€" ter t J. A. Ellis, secretary of the Reâ€" Relief Frauds Charged in Town of Chelmsford ducled + for the general benefit. The present officers, who have made such notable success of the work in the despite, despite all difficulties, volunâ€" tegered to carry on if the council would dxwuédng the matter at the council , Becretary Unwin spoke of the limited powers which the library board held. as gt present constituted and the better opportunity there would be if the town took over the library. He alâ€" so noted that the library‘s cperating costs were about $300 annually, without any provision for the purchase of new bOIks The fact that the government maintaing a department of libraries and makes annualâ€"grants, he said, was proof enough of the importance of such an institution, and he told the council that Halleybury was the only comâ€" munity in Ontario where a library was established and where no grant was reâ€" ceived from the municipality. y and the library successfully conâ€" the general benefit. The It was felt by the chairâ€" man and secretary that if the town would take over the public library the fin could be secured much more The total receipts were $531.53, with expenses $500.00, the amount possible for new books being thus small. The government grant will likely be reducâ€" ed thisy year making the matter of sucâ€" cessfully conducting the library still 647 Y