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W smithing and bono-‘ shoeing wants. | ‘This is the time of year that your horses are working hard. K:r their fe:t in reod condition, aid have them well shod and they will stand the ‘oin'. Give me a call. Charles A. Wasnidge Cene‘ al Blacksmith and Norseshoe From Appearance In many cases they improve. Modern w as we make, them are rimless lenses held surely but comfortably on the nose b{ inâ€" co:pk;:: ::u-on mountings. lua optometrists we fell congdent in our ability to comâ€" petently examine and prescribe fo: _ ‘That our confidence is justified is indicated by our greater number daye Sks~ An 111 King East, HAMILTON 1. 8. ROUSE, Proprietor 30 Stops from Terminai Depot Oculists Prescriptions ptly nd accurately fillepd‘. $s LOVELY SPRING GLOBE OPTICAL CO. Full line of trimmed hats suitable for dress and Models of new snall chic variety which is the Large variety of the newâ€" est novelties for head Take my advice lnd“dhl’ ”?&roufioml'l-m BOOTS and SHOES You will find satisfaction in a REPAIRS DONE Positively Stunning Wall Papers MY SPRING STOCK 4 John St. North, cer King Perfect Fit, Superior Style and Modsrate Prices. is just exactly what you will think when you see our new assortment. . They certainâ€" ly are an elegant lot to see. ‘Then to know how much better they will look when hung is a satisfaction acâ€" corded only to those who have used them. â€" Rememâ€" ber if you contemplate papering you‘il do much s’fin.i.-fly.loio 51, 53 King St. West Miruimzgay Pario®S H. BULL It‘s up to you. Still on the Job at the old stand at the Bridge on Main SHOE STORE 1 am in a better sition than ever to ok after your black OF The Peopie‘s Paper__._â€" Established TERMSâ€"Subscribors in Canada $1 T in advarice. I States $1.50 per year in advance. t por you & 7 Lt dogs delight to bark and fight, s vigk e For God hath made them so. weavies‘\ Let bears and lons quarre! and fight, «4d For ‘ts their nature to. wultk But Jimmie Bennett no‘er should let w MHis angry passions rise. ~» ts His little hands were never made To tear Will Russ‘ eyes. ® a e 0e o o # + I regret to learn that ‘u a moment of passion my old friend, J. D. Bennett, of Beamsvilie, struck another of my old friends, Mr. W. B. Russ, superintendent of the Queenston & Grimsby stone road. w It mppears that Mr. Russ had done some work on the Queenston & Grimaby stone road,. in front of the property «f Mr. Bennett and several other resldents of Beamsvilie, last fallâ€"that is what Mr. Russ is hired by the County to do. in 6 ie Mr. Bennett took exception _ to the manner in which it was. done, and when the Queonston &.Grimsby Stone Road Committee was going over t'l:‘o road the other day, Mr. Bennett laid his complaint before . the committee Mr. Russ intended to keep out of the argument and to ablde. by the decision of the committee and remained at somedistance from the somâ€" mittee while Mr. Bennett was expiaining the matter to them. Mr. Bennett called Mr. Russ to come nearer to himself and the com mittee and after M:. Bennett had told his side of the story, Mr. Russ told him that he was misstating the facts, and as he sall this, be turned to .l:l, nvl‘u ;I’fll;l Mr. Bennett, when the latter gentleman struck him a violent ow in the face. redd Immediately several of the gentlomen rushed between the two, or Benâ€" nett would very. likely have got all that was coming to him. 1 kpow nothing. about the situation, as I never examined that cular plece of road, Whether Mr. Rue~ fixed the road rivht or wh he fixed it wrong, it is not the glace of Mr. Bennett or any other m come over on the road ':'.i"....:;fi?;gi_’-ibfim"""’ ... /. " l ‘ ‘The superintendent is engaged to lo0k after the Queenston & stone road, and does so under the orders of a large committee, _1 his construction of the road, injures Of interferes with II.LIII\ ty or frontage, the injured one can N¢fer the matter to co and Mr, Russ is always _ willing to abide by their decision. 1 do not desire to say very much @bout this matter a+ may be aired in the police court, but 1 do now, as I alwa; stand firmly for the protection of all Public officials, in the A vecullet, ioeabolt n‘mtflll M": water courses 'lhp:.‘lm dvery wherd, except"1 ‘Mr. Bonnett is not the only gentieman who is quite willing to have deep ditches in front of everybody‘s Droperty but his own. There are .dozens of these people living along the line, and in this respect, Mr. Russ! troubles never cease. mirte A great many people are delight®d to see a good ditsh in front ol’ their neighbor‘s property, as it eaCOUrages the water to c«nâ€"off theirl‘ own property, but as soon as the subttendent starts to dig a ditch or grade the road in front of their own |ittle kingdom, then they are ready to raise a howl1, and fight the superintendent to the bitter end. Mr. Bennett and all the ‘gentlemen like him, are exactly, in . this matter, like I am in the matter of ®Y relatives going to war, I _ am quite satisfied to have all my wife‘s relations enlist and go to war, just as Mr. Bennett is satisfied to bave Mr/ Russ dig a substantial . ditch . in front of everybody‘s property uflt.hll.o:fl- their duty. In an ediforial of several colu®ns in length, the editor _ of _ the Beamevilie Express replied to my comments on an article which apâ€" peared in the Beamsvilie Express about two weeks ago, with regatd .to mmmwthmfl.‘grnfly stone road by recent rains. ‘The previous article on the ExPress stated that much of the previâ€" ous year‘s work had been ruined on 20°OUDt of the faulty drainage. e * o 1 took exception to this _ stateMent, and said that not over one dolâ€" lar‘s worth of damage had been done VY the rains, to the newly constructâ€" ed work, and that none of the mater|@) had been washed away, . as Was stated by the Express. f * a% Advertising rates ~n application. 1 still hold to that statement, NC iL !% of balderdash which appeared l-h.l!o.“lv.n- hodmdml'n-mtlnllwoorarn places _ holes were worn in the road. . The holes which he refers to were: ruts worn lmmmumw-cnn&dllwllu.mm"vmm of these ruts washed in the newly eonstructed portions of the road, but in the older parts that have had ‘2':':’.':"." for many years. . ‘The editor also states that large portions of the top dressing and some stone were carried out of the road. The stone which he saw here and there by the side of the road Was left when the teams were haulâ€" lag last fall, being remains of where piles of broken stone Jay along the ‘The top dressing which he referato was thrown out of the road by the urrlle»-ddntmfllanldhrltwumm-floumlldnd the road into the ditch, it had been carried along by the water; but this same top dressing lay a}! along the side of the road last summer after it had been thrown off by the speed of automobiJes around the curves.â€" It was so deap _ along the roadâ€"side last summer and the summer befgre last, that it could have been .‘n.n.u:d.n.p with a, shovel. ‘The editor of the Express in his lack of knowledge in this matter, quite naturally concludes that this material was worn off the road this springâ€"whereas it has been lying on the side of the road for over . two years. The editor‘s reference to _ plugRed culverts, etc., shows how | little he knows about the conditions which Mr. Russ has to contend with . in fighting the water along the .Qu.e-'lguzn‘l Grimsby stone road. * In the entire Province of Ontario there is not another road situated as the Queenston & Grimsby stone soad isâ€"â€"It runs for its entire length, close to the foot of the . mountain, and the water Tushing down from the mountain towards the north, in ditches and furrows at a speed _ of from ten to twentyâ€"five miles an hour, suddenly comes in contact with the stone road running east and west, were the stone road not there, 'fl: mrmunnuhthhuudlo no damage, but when it atril the stone road it is foreed to turn at rlmnclnud run east or west in a ditch almost level, then ‘the water t was running fiftcon or twenty miles an hour, is forced to nlow‘dnn. ;O.M one mile an hour, ‘"This allows the sediment, which w86 earried down by the water, to settle and All up ‘ditches and cufverts , and these are the conditions that Mr., Russ has had to lnt.u:u.'y.yfl. and is stlll fighting. To make maters worse, Mr, Russ has to fight the ratepayers. along the Mhtlomurdnlu.n.l.. cca Thmkuthomthuadmml'ullhumuennm mlnutonnunufnn.t}o.lr.w. 'I'hunlc-nlnmhllu of the road do not want the water to cross the road in culverts, but want it to continue along the road in the \dlmo-mmn-m. ues tX THE _ INDEPENDENT The consequence is that Mr. Facts and Fancies JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, Editor and Proprietor, J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, News Editor, Published every Wednesday By Frank Fairborn Russ has beon fighting year by year . to and it is a fact, in spite of the column Express 148t week. s â€",mmn-‘wm.hhhundlhnm.luhh-mmmly jough yot. £ k‘a‘a‘a‘eis % When I was in the County Council some twenty years ago, this fight ,or culverts crossing roads was just in its infancy, and the _ committee d the reeves of the various municipalities had to make annual fights to ; the culverts out across the zoad where they were necessary, in order y handle the water, ut q. A Every ratepayer in the county is willing to have a culvert actoss the wd to carry water on to his neighbor‘s farm, but for God‘s sake keep it / his farm, and Superintendent Russ has += fight this reeling from ,-..-udo(mnolu!hoth.ar..."‘ Where there is sufficient fail in the ditch along the south side of the wad to carry the water _ quickly,there is hot . much difficulty, but were the fall is slight, the sediment carried down by the fast. running wter from the mountain, settles in the ditch. In fighting this "condition jong the m‘.m..ormu?:t.luul work eut out for him. . ww o# ® The difference between the Editor of the Express and mywelf in disâ€" ussing this matter Nes in the fact that 1 have made thousands of trips her this road, while the Editor of the Express "has made one or {wo, # in other words, 1 know what 1 am taiking about and he Zocsn‘t. ST. ANNS jir. Ralph Fields of Queenston, Was rmowing old acquaintances in St. jins one day this week. T TEA OE C l00 i) Agamnt aHmF o s e \rs. Thos. Crosby was\in Hamilâ€"| wa on Saturday. Mirs. J. Wardel} and Mrs. Wm, Mitâ€" wener were in Smithville on Saturâ€" dy. \ir, C. F. Snyder of Welland is reâ€" wwing old acquaintances in . town this week. Yr. and Mrs. Wm. Lambert of Vine uad, are visiting at . Mr. Stephen Morley‘s. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Warrander were is Hamilton on Monday attending the tuneral of the late Arthur L. Stares, Yirs. A. McLean and Mrs. A. Schram were in @mithville on Thursday, _ _ Ehaagh 0 ho B e lt en Mirs. W. E. Swarts was in Smithâ€" ville one day this week. Mrg, Allan Teeter made a trip to Smithville on Tuesday, F. D. McPherson ‘of Niagara Falls south, was in town on Tuesday, Mir. and Mrs, J, Wardell are visiting: friends in Hamilton. Mr. Nelson Chadwick and family of Dismark, were weekâ€"end visitors at Yir, John Beamer‘s. _ T cA ";l:.'nounmlm has _ returned home after visiting friends in Welâ€" landport. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fisher returned home on Monday, after visiting their son in Welland, s Wm, Fisher Jr was in Welland one day this week. â€"\r. and Mrs. Frank Mingle enterâ€" tained a number of their friends . on Thursday night. . on sA Aol a (Mrs. J. M. Martin is visiting her. son at Chicago. "Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Goring of Welâ€" landport, have moved to Smithville. Mr. Chas, Grassie has bought the blacksmith business of Lane Bros. _ Mrs. Claude Snider spent the week at Attercliffe, "Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Brant are visâ€" 1 at Mr. J, B. Brant‘s. Ee oeinon n eBR css ~At the last M:l‘l; .m:‘fl‘l.u of. of the members mnind lhc'ldp‘ with three beautiful chains for the officers. «Diedâ€"At Smithville, Tuesday, April 15, 1913, the beloved whe of J. B. \mn. Eeq., in her 53rd year. tone for thirty days, NU t sults Promisoe anything. We won‘t even {promise any 7 tm BdE hal B and wil Mz so, we will immediately hand back faur money. . We won‘t ask you to es Wt ' tisfaction to our customers n.fir-lthfih'ci-' plse es mss hanls 1 lone for others that we endorso 1. uh Ns aned is fi Ceefeuice Must You Be Bald? What have you done to stop Winta Tadlos $ievs Tou biee e know of Contractor‘s '| Supplies _ â€" | Lime for Spnyiu\ All other Contractors® Supplies 81 Main St. West Telephone 771. _ HAMILTON H. & J. Dow Lime, Portlaad Cement The oldest and most reliable piano . nfimer in the district. ‘wentyâ€"five years experience. A postâ€"card will bring me right to you Prices moderate, _ Also salesman for the Nordheimer A Fiano Co: H. L. DAVIS, T70 Main St., E, Haniitco. House Painting Decorating Papering Prompt attention to all orders. ‘~ â€"H. L. DAVIS 4Â¥ L S T * PAINTER AND DECORATOE. ‘Telephone 3. . GRIMSBY Read This Notice A. B. TUFFORD Real Estate Man * Only 50 Acres ‘ _ Try A. B.Tufford Only $4,000 This lovely farm ~â€" only Â¥2 mile to church JOHN B. 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J. M. Hughton ANCASTER, CAMPBELL, & LAX. B. MeCONACHIE H. CARPENTER, B, A., W. S. MILLYARD R. E. WOODRUFF Resident Piano Tuner Robinson Street South, GRIMSBY Pelephone 171 The Hamilton Provident and Cor King and Hughson Sts HAMILTON MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Property Valuator â€"W. F. Gibson, Vineland Station Four per cent. paid on deâ€" posits running for one . year or longer LAXD SURVEYOR C. FERRIE, Treasurer Dentist, Ramilto®