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uTQ STnrULh'I'F, EGG For use coats that in a Docks Tented. Hume’s Poultry Spice is a careful- V compounded powder, composed of ingredients, which will \definitely stimulate egg production'.. ‘It tones the digestive system and'produces-a healthful and more robustk egg ma- chine. IFeed it regularly for best results. 25c per can, 5 for $1.00 at Parke & Parke, Limited, Market Hamilton. ' WW%M*M%**M¢WMWWM%W***M%*M*Wm**WWWWWM W¢%MW**MMWWMM groom's gift. a gold bracelet 'wrist watch. Immediately after the cere- mony Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell left for Harrison Hot‘ Springs and later they will go to Victoria and Vancouver. Upon their return they\wi11 "reside in Calgary. A quiet wedding was solemnized at St Stephen's Church, Calgary, pn Wednesday, March 31. when Frieda Booker, youngest daughter of Dr. R. A. Alexander of GRIMSBY, Ont., was united in marriage to Lewis 'Walxbridxge, eldest son of Mr.' and Mrs. John F.'taldwe11 of Winnipeg, Rest. Canon James officiating. The bride, who was given away by her brother-in-law. Dr. Alwyn Danks, was, unattended. and looked very girlish and -pretty in a navy blue tri- cotine suit with large tulle and tat- feta hat to match, carrying a bou- quet of Ophelia roses. She wore- the _ The meétmg was attended by growers all the way from Clarkson to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Tm are ' 'â€" the -.. raise in, F3395 made on the group ' entirely unfair to ll] tween Hamilton and to pay the same rate between ‘Hamilton Falls. . u committee was arrpointerto work with Mr._Macrntosh in securing data, and for co ferring with the express companies 20 see what arrangements can be made in the matter. . The companies have laid out the new schedule of rates in a sort of a haphazard manner, for instance. The rate between Niagara Falls and Tor- onto is to be increased 100 per cent. This stretch of country is known as a group and the rate is the same from Clarkson to Oakville into Tor- onto as it is from Niagara Falls, St. Last spring the express compan- ies were not allowed to raise their rates when they appeared before the Railway Commission, on necessary commodities ot life, but were allow- ed to raise on other produtrts. The ruling given down by the Co miss- sion' wad to the effect that thgl com- panies might appeal to the Board again it. they found that they could not continue to carry commodities at ' profit. Apparently they cannot, for they have intimated that they in- tend to again appeal to the Commis- sion for increase in rates. They claim that for the last four months unit losses have totalled $74,000. 1169qu w--‘.___e, The meeting was hurriedly called by the president of the association at the request of Mr. MacIntosh, of the Fruit Commissioners Office, Ottawa, to discuss the threatened raise in express rates by the express com- panies. h A fair sized crowd ot fruit growers turned out to the specially Called meeting of the Niagara Peninsula Fruit Growers Association on Wed- nesday afternoon last. . fill) FIRST SECTION THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. CALDWELL---- fl alllEils Mrrif RAISE IN HMES we routs HEAR 500m) or: 9000)) SAme In THE PAQLOQ AM!) ao INVESTIGATIC FIND THE SwEETIRS FAST ASLEEPA in emergencies pane can he folded and Cor handbag have b "Hon" and "Dearie Irtet' in"; "> HEAR. Tl \LEXANDER xpress compan- PRODUCTION 'HE THEINDEPEN <r rain- carried been in- THEY LOOK wHAT lih)ELY LET‘S GET THE LIKE THE COMPANY mew Cate, Bases m ".rreEtjy.i.t,E AM? smug» "Will Miracles never cease"-isalr- ing jail? Some few moons back an indian named William Miraéle was sent to the Icounty'jail in St. Catharines to await trial on a theft charge. One bright morning-the turnkey"opened the door ot his cell but he was con- spicuous by his absence. He had flew the coop. A few days ago Chief Kon.kle got wind of his whereabouts and on Monday Chief Smith of Bur- lington at the instance of Chief Kon- kle arrested the dusky hued gentle- lman. Chief Konkle received him in his arms at number three police sta- tion in Hamilton on Tuesday after- noon and brought him to GRIMSBY in .Ex-Chief Swayze's new "Gasoline wagon" and locked him up in the lo- cal calabopse. I About fifteen minutes after being placed in the cell Miracle was seen running out the lane onto the street and up the hill. Chief 8onkle was notified but :by the time he reached the coop the 'bird was gone out of sight. He cut up through Anderson/s peach orchard and went up the mountain on the old Robinson street trail. At the top of the trail he met Thos. Sandy and informed that gen- ftleman that it was easy to escape from GRIMSBY jail as the Chief went away and forgot to lock the door tightly. There is a question of great im- portance that is agitating the mind, of Chief of Police Konkle and that is, word' was brought . to Fire Chief 'Smith at the War Veterans hall to the effect that the barn on the pro- perty of Mrs. Harvey Hill, on Ker- man Avenue,N. just over the G.T.R. tracks had burneli down. The Chief took Mrs. Hill, who was at the dance and Mango the scene in an auto- mobile. When they reached there (Continued on page 8.) WILL [MIHAIILES NEVER 1llijiSli-lllliilll(llG JAIL On Tfriday night a word' was brought Chief JConlr1e passed up the street past the shop five minutes before Kidd saw the fire but there was no 'blaze there then. Whoever done the deed was working fast but picked a little too early an hour in the even- ing tor his work. At the time this happened A. H. Phipps, who had only purchased the property that day, was in his store as was Vernon Tuck. They heard no noise and saw n. oone about the :building. _ I Mystery dark and deep surrounds the' discovery of the fire in West's barber shop on Thursday night last by Capt. Ronald H). Kidd, wc. At 10.45 Capt. Kidd, M. C. left Mc- Coy's Tea Room and started for home. When opposite the barber shop he glanced in the window and ,saw small flickering flames burning ',at the back of the shop. He rushed '.back to MeCoy's and gave the word and was immediately Joined by sever- al of GRIMSBY'S night owls. The door ot the shop was kicked in and (immediately it opened a great cloud ’of smoke rolled out and it was plain to all that coal oil had ‘been used as (the smell of it was very strong. Capt. Hi'. H. Kidd, M. C. pnd J. Orlon Liv- Iingston rushed to the back ot the shop and found the door step inside the back door on fire. They tore it up and "threw it out on the sidewalk. At the bottom of the step little pools of liquid could be seen and upon in-. vestigation was found to :be coal oil. By this time,0hief 'Konkle arrived on the scene and he found that the backdoor was still bolted but that a small hole had been upunched through the glass at the one corner of the frame. As near as it can be figured out a small bottle like a pop bottle had been inserted'through the hole in the glass and the coal oil poured out over the step and floor, then a match was dropped in and the would-be fire bug departed to wait eventualitles that did not eventuate. No reason can be figured out as to 'Why this particular building should b icked out tor fire setting purpos e:2\ p li THERE A f g- m 3mm Barn Burned night about one o’clock TWO SE CIlI0N S HHE flllil MSBY " _ "opened as con- He had - appeared by the dozen, our life is again in danger every moment of the day, for with the ap'pearancesof the auto also comes the hair- brained. don't-give-a-D------, driver who has no respect for his own life or the lives pf others. This hammer-headed specimen of human- ity who is carrying nothing around on his shoulders but a vaccum container is due for an awful fall off his perch this summer for Chief Konkle has decided to put.his foot down hard on all reckless drivers who refuse lo Jive up to the traffic rules of the town. The Chief was pretty warm under the collar when we met him on the street one day last week just at noon time, and he had a perfect right to be "Het up." The schools were.out for noon hour and the street was crowded with little kids and rigs, but that did not deter one of GRrMSBY'S illust- rous nonentities from tearing through the town as fast as his old rattle trap would go, splashing mud and water on everybody within reach and endangering a hundred people's lives. He Was not even staying to his own side of the road but was dodging here and there like a scared rabbit in a thunder storm. This kind of foolhardiness has got to stop and Chief Kongle is going to stop it if he has to jail the whole town and township to do it. S. F. Washinvton, St. Andrews AVE). house, GRIMSBB, to Geo. Hall, Dun- das. a Peter Zollener 160 farm, North GR'IM'SBY, kins, Sudbury. Richard Writtenburg house, to Cur- tis Miller, GRIMSBY. Miss Geddes 1 acre, fruit farm, North GRIMSBY, to C. E. Leckie, ex- City Treasurer of Hamilton. I s. Hunt 50 acre farm, North GRIMSBY, to C. Martin, North Bay. S. F. Washingtdn, St. Andrews Ave. house, GRIMSBY, to Mrs. Stor- mount, GRIMSBY. f, lil J. Shepherd, 20 acre wing. P'. , ousew'GRIMSBY, to Geo .Hau, bar. das. 1 'S.'lr'. .Washington, St. Andrews Ava. house, GRIM-SBY, to C. Clatten-t’lm, IGPIMSBY. 1 s" 'iiiiiii"iiiii"'i"iiiiiiii [DOSE Hm THE 5mm . The pin-he of 1920. Ah M comparatively 5 Lawrie livery, to Hamilton. C. Woolverton Blot dart, Hamilton. Geo Parsons 17 am try farm, North GR Gosling, Toronto. s. F. Washington, , GRIMSBY, to R. D. .1 BY. _ . Real Estate has,been an all ab-I sorbing topic in this district the past' month or six wzeks’ and property has changed han s at a rapid, rate. The housing problem in IGR'IMlSBY has become very acute and as a consequence many men have pur-. chased homes who would not have done so had they been able to rent. Farm property, especially the grain and stock kind has had a ready sale and during the past month many farms have changed hands. The old live-wire real estate firm,’ Swawe and Shepherd, who tar years helped to keep GRIMJSBY on thel map are now located in the city ot Hamilton and are carrying on. an enormous business under the name of the Royal -Rea1 Estate. Although they handle hundreds of city bro- perties a month they still find time to 160k after their large In?“ in this district and are cons my putting thrBugh deals in the same old manner that made them £8.th through the Fruit [Belt 'before the war. .' During the past six weeks Swayze and Shepherd have put through the following deals in this district: ut now LEADING REAL ESTATE MEN OF THE FRUIT BELT. low that sprin med bv the dc GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2rst, 1920 livery, to John 'Stoddart iprheaded automobile driver Mi winter long when the Sl D. E. SWAYZI re truit'artd poul t1MSBY, to C. Kidd Ave., mouse.- Johnson, GRIMS" 1n h to John Stod acre to G tomobile driver is loose agaip for the season ng when the snow banks were high, we felt rendine our an about the streetssof the town grain Wat- once I Alfred Taylor has purchased the valuable property ot J. W. Copeland Wm. Irelterborn of GRIMSBY, who recently purchased J. Lang's farm, in Clinton Township, has hold to a Mr. Geiger ot Toronto. Mr. G. C. Ingram, Thirty mountain, has sold his farm to a Mr. Robertson of Leamington, "a returned soldier" who with his family took possession last week. A, Melick has so Yonge Street, South Rouse ot Ridgeeille, possession shortly. District Real Estate Sales A. Grant of Abingdon has sold 25 acres to Gilbert Lampman. William Merhtt, Abingdon, has sold his farm to William Lampman and G. E. Nicholls of Abingdon. W. C. Misener, has purchased the H.H Davis farm in South GRIMSBY. A, Melick has sold his farm on Yonge Street. South GRIMSBY to If. Rouse of Ridgeville. who will take T. Ferbrache has purchased Wm. Martin's farm north east of Beams- ville. ’ Jacob Brooks has sold his house and small fruit farm, now occupied by Orlando Otield to a Montreal man. oerRhe-Twenty Road in St. Ann's and itends erecting a fine pressed brick residence. . Chas. Swalm, of Chippewa, has pur chased the McIntyre property on On- tario street, Beamsville. The C. E.Woolverton Block which the County Motors Limited purchas- ed a few week's ‘ago has changed hands again, A. H. Phipps purchasing it last week. C. Southward 86 acres, South GRIMSBY, to D. Hi. Burke, Toronto. Other Sales Clarence Shelton has purchased the John Hayden house and lot on Robinson street South. C. Lampman 50 acre farm, South GRIMS-BY, to L. Munro, Hamilton. thn Hewitt (Estate) 100 acre farm, North GR-IMSBY, to Wm. Fur- ler. John Simpson 26 acres, South GRIMSBY, to Geo. Hayes, Hamilton. Tom Pearson 100 acre grain and fruit farm, North GRIMSBY, to L. Mitchell, Haileybury, Ont. A. F. Hawke ii North GRIMSBY Sudbury. IO F. J. SHEPHERD nd the automt l every moment 0 so comes the hair respect for his 0w1 Decimen of human acre fruit farm, to C. Letson, ll Lave i The third package tried out was the storage "tlats'1and these have prov- Ied the most satiisfactory from an leconomical \standpoint. The flats leonsisted of shallow trays, 18 inches F 24 inches, with a depth of' 4 inch- Ies. From ad inch to 1 inch spaces were provided between the bottom 'islats. and the side pieces were 2% (inches wide spaced 1 inch below the (Continued on page 6) The five varieties of grapes in.. eluded in the tests were Niagara, Agawam, Lindly, Vergennes, and Black Rogers. The grapes were de- livered to A, the plant in six quart climax baskets by local growers, and stored in a variety of packages in order that a test might he made of different types of storage packages and varieties at the same time. Packages Storage package No. 1 consisted of the ordinary six quart climax basket, packed in the same manner as it in. tended for immediate shipment. \The only special preparation was the in- spection ot the grapes and the re- moval of all crushed or spoiled ber- ries from the clusters. These grapes and also those stored in the packages ot which later mention will be made, were held in a temperature of 32 de- grees. It was found on withdrawal for shipment- on December 19th that the loss in the case of this package had been very slight, most of it be- ing in the nature of stem mould, which would be encouraged by the massing of the grapes together, as occurs with the six quart basket and the consequent lack' ot ventilation. The grapes' (retairied'thisir appearance to a satisfactory degree and were 'in good condition for sale." Prism forth: er tests, however, it has been found that when grapes packed in these baskets are piled to arty extent in storage, as is necessary with com- mercial lots of any size, the stem mould is likely to be quite consider- able. For this ‘reason the climax basket cannot be recommended as a thoroughly satisfactory package for long time storage. ' p The second package under test was the keg, similar. to that in which foreign grapes are imported into this country, and the preparation of the fruit was the same as in the case of the six quart climax basket. The bunches were :put in, one layer at a time, and covered with granulated cork. The keg was shaken. from time to time as they were put in so that the cork would work its way between the clusters and berries ‘to as great an extent as possible. On removal it was found that the condi- tion of the fruit in this package was practically the same as when put in storage. Very little shrinkage in weight had taken place, and the loss through mould and decay was almost nil..The results of this and former tests with cork packing have demon- strated that for small lots meant for private use, etc., this package is pre- ferable to any other. It cannot be recommended ,however, as the eco- nomical package for large commer- cial lots since the cost of packing and unpacking more than offsets the somewhat slighter loss that l ill oc- cur in the packages where filling is not used. _ During the grape picking season of 1919 commercial grape storage tests were started at the GRIMSBY Pre-cooling and Experimental Fruit Storage Warehouse with a view of determining: (a) Which varieties are most suitable tor storage for the Christmas market; (b) with what degree of success they could be stored, and (e) the prices that might be realized for them/in competition with the import- ed product at that season of the year. Even assuming that the higher prices of 1919 would be cootimitsd, it was felt that a limited quantity might be marketed to advantage in the Christmas season, provided they could :be placed on the market in a state ot preservation and appearance to compete with the imported grapes on the markets at that time. The tests were not carried out on a large scale, only sufficient grapes being stored to make a fair commercial test. GRAPE STORAGE [iifrllj,i.fllii,lillliinrlllillMijf1? AI EHIMSBY nlilllllllffl'1'llll FOR NEW HIGHWAY (By C. M. Bonham jllll[)llE)i)tiii Napping In the Parlor TWELVE PAGES Superintendent) .50 PER YEAR, 4c PER COPY To a certain extent the residents were and still are groping in the dark for real information as to what is really going to be done with the road is not forthcoming. The idea first started uby the late Hearst ad- ministration was to have a ninety foot boulevarded roadway. This would mean "the moving of the B. G. & B. tracks some distance to the South, and by so doing would ruin many of the fine fronts. It would also necessitate the moving to the North of the present sidewalk. Nothing but a paved road, it it is at all possible to obtain it, will suit the residents living along the pro- vincial highway between GRIMSBY and the Beach. At least such was the consensus of opinion expressed by them at a meeting held in the Council Ch.ambers on Thursday night last. 'Ex-Reeve Hamilton Fleming had a communication from the Deputy Min: ister of Works, wherein he stated that it the road was built thirty feet wide of cement the residents along the road would have to pay a certain percentage of the cost of “the extra width and the building of curbs and gutters. This would do away with the present big open ditches and would cost in the neighborhood of $25,000 a mile, or about two dollars and a halt a frontage foot to each owner, on each side of the road. To some o.wners this would amount to a lot of money while to others it would not come so steep.‘ Owing to the pecuulhu. condi- ions surrounding this particular piece of road it does not seem rea- sonable that the Government would stick to their provincial wide plan of building a ninety foot road, as it would entail a terrible cost and do untold damage to the farms. The ninety foot idea is only tor future protection. If the road were built to-morrow on the ninety fret w'idth only twenty feet of road would be 'built, the balance being held in re- serve for future use as travel de- manded it." CAFETERIA TEA A Cafeteria Tea. (under the aus- pices of the Guild and Auxiliary of St. Andrews Church) wil1 be served in the Parish Hall on Thursday April And from 4.30 to s .p.m. At- ter which a social evening will be enjoyed. All home-made cookng-- meats/salads, pies, cakes, etc. Please remember the date, Thurs- day 22nd and come. A resolution was passed asking the government to go'ahead and, build a permanent cement roadway this year thirty feet wide with cunb and gutters and that the residents along the road would be willing to pay a share 3f the cost of the extra width and the curbing. "THREE TIMES AND OCP' SAYS STEVE b There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth up around Mc- Coy's Tea Room on Tuesday morning when the place was opened for the day and it was found that Steve had 'been touched again, the third time in less than a year. Aye midnight marauders entered the store through 'The same crooks tried to gain en- trance into the Hawke store, for they moved one of MeCoy's ice cream kegs over under .the window and getting up on it tore away the window screen only to be confronted with iron bars which stopped their nefarious work. a window in the kitchen stealing five dollars in the cash register, also I marred up the new ch will climbing ‘in and out, "Three time and out, bother me any more." 'The same crooks tried Reeve. Mitchell stated that he had been in communication with Mr. Rel- lowes, the engineer in charge of this road and Fellowes had told him that it was the intention to go to work on this road immediately and lay a macadam road and coat it heavily with tar oil. This then wguld 'be us- ed as a bottom (if it is not destroy- ed) for the new cement top. Reeve Mitchell was -requsted to send the -resolution to Mr. Biggs and to ask him to send an engineer over here to confer with the residents. Nothin n silve1 o marke Ste they TIt PAGES besides . from d and kitchen ve says 1t08 asays won't