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FIRST SECTION fQlffffifilllllll IN Mlllljfllil MARKET IE flil The women of North America----. Umph ; Umph. I'm wrong again. Some of the females of North America are making an a.wful noise demand- ing the "tranchise." They do not know what it is or what they are go- ing to use it for but they want it. Alright; give it to them and let them use or abuse it and they l ill soon get tired of it and then perhaps they will have a little more time to attend to the proper handling of the "old man's" hard earned pelt. Apart from the few people around here we are not particularly interested, so let's find out how much the women of this God's acr: really know. Farmers and Dealers Ask Some Fancy Prices and Many Wom- en Are Foolish Enough to Pay Big Prices for Needless Luxur- ies Out of Season. Some real women in Hamilton have started an agitation to boycott the grafters in potatoes. They claim that they are getting many adher- ents and that their cause will even- tually bring down the price. But so long as that other elemtnt of fe- males are foolish enough to walk on- to Hamilton market and give the profiteering gent at the side of the load whatever he chooses to ask, the women who are earnestly trying to save themselyes and their sisters, Welland, April 26.-A unique snap- shot ere long will find an honored place in the family album ot. a cer- tain resident in these parts. The subject was not a willing sit- ter-or stander. He was snapshotted only after being driven to bay at the end of an exciting chase in and about and over and under a maze' of farm wagons parked about the market here to-day. The camera-shy one was "The-man-who-had-the-nerve-to- szugr-rivessdttuars-ptr-sbuslie1-tor-, pota- toes," and the hunter who got him was an irate towngman,who, if he couldn't rave his life, was at least determined to have his picture. "r--... The townsman on his first attempt to buy potatoes was shocked to hear them quoted .at. $4.50,. and went tur- ther, hoping to fare better. Thus it was that he came upon the “Five- dollar Man," and his indignation knew no bounds. "Robber (this was. one of his mildest terms), I am going to get a camera and take your pic. ture," he cried. "Men like you de- serve to have their features bequeath ed to posterity." He made good his threat, but the picture was filmed only after the farmer had been pur- sued and cornered. from Ibeing robbed will have an up- hill fight. So far I have been un- able to discover one word in any ot the {Hamilton papers that would tend to help these women who have the courage of their convictions. The papers report what the leaders ot the movement tell them has occurred but they do not seem to want to say anything in support of the move- ment. It is a well known fact that anything that the Hamilton papers support is almost sure to fail and anything that they go against is just about assure to be a winner, so it is perhaps as well that the Hamilton rags are maid that they will offend a farmer or two who hate to be told the truth. :But suppose some of the women who. are spending a lot of time agi- tating tor a "vote" would spend a little of that time getting informa- tion on the subject of beating the profiteers on the Hamilton market. Mrs. MacFarlane, I believe, is the lady primarily. responsible for the movement to boycott the potato graft- ers. And more power to her and those with her. She will be glad to (Continued on page 3.) 'T" .e . nu uuuu Wlbll Luc Duncuuxc nu. UV .A unlbv u, - “- My --"'-'"'"' -.____ _,-- . -- .. - - . 7 “1089 won ineT- Mne WI” De glau w I * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ll"C10'ecd' up. Square, Hamilton. pended sentence. I (Continued on page , (Continued on page 3.) " 6666 WWWWWWWW*WWWW%W oo'"'""'""""'"'"""""""""'."" **“***'***"*"'i'i . I . . d L k a " " q " . . . . --- _,,,. o.,.. Hon In Har uc Hon an earle .-. .-. . . . . . . THIRTY-FIFT H YEAR. (By Mille) a.-." "IHrillllEi INDEPENDENT ff - TWO nlglllfiflS BREAK FROM (llllllffll JAIL Attacked Turnkey With Iron Pipe --Nelson Mircal and Clarence Brown Make Get-Away in Day- light-Third Escape for Mircal "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" so far as Nelson Mircal is concerned. With the true In6ian's love of freedom, he, Saturday morning once more shook the dust of the county jail from his feet and left for parts unknown. Jail-break- ing has become a habit with Mircal. Last September' he left the county Bastile in a quite unceremonious man- ner; and on Wednesday night, after being re-arrested at Burlington, he escaped from the coop at GRIMSBY. He was again caught, brought to the Jail in St. Catharines on Friday and left again Saturday memmg. "VIE Ag'in Pinnigan" has nothing on Mircal. The Indian had a partner in his latest escapade--Clarenee E. Brown, The men made their get-away short- ly before , o'clock in the morning. Turnkey Robert Phipps. an elderly man, entered the corridor to get two prisoners for kitchen help. Armed with a two-foot piece of- iron water- pipe the prisoner Brown struck the turnkey twice over the head, inflicting bad wounds and knocking him out. Mircal and Brown took the keys, un- locked the door leading into the exer- cise yards, and ran out. The gate be- tween the yards was open. Miroal scaled the wall and helped Brown to the top of it. They dropped to the fground in the rear of the jail and were ree, ' the man sentenced last week to six months for defrauding a merchant and for robbing a fellow boarder. 'Dr. Vanderburg, of iuerritton, at- tended Phipps, and put in six stitches to close the wounds. Phipps is now in (Continued on page 3.) With the expiration on July 1st of the moratorium in Ontario all mortgages which would have fab len due had the war not taken lf --M en Them. illdlSli ALL MORTGAGES TWO SECTIONS Took Keys of Jail With a.-------""- al-r-t gp: When the INDEPENDENT sent w. S. Tefft, an advertising; expert out to work the merchants of GRIMSBY for special advertis-i ing for our big "p,UY-AT-HOME" campaign which we inaugurated} last week we told him to tell the merchants that the first issue of the; directory would appear on our front page, a very sacred place indeed] so far as advertising; goes. We fell down on the job. Tefft did Iitl part but the support given the idea by the live-wire merchants 1yli manufacturers of the town was so spontaneous that when we camel to make the type matter up into shape we found that it was so long that it was impossible to get it on the front, page under the heading. It could not be made up in any other shape without the wasting of a lot of precious space. We did the next 'best thing and ran our second section without a large head and placed the directory on the first page of the second section. That is our alibi. This week the directory appears on page seven and we want every reader of this paper to read it. Read the article. Read the advs. They all carry a message for you. For the next twenty-six weeks this directory will appear and each and every week it will carry a new. article, on the advantages of buying at home and the disadvantages and loss of time and money that accrue from buying away from home. The articles are well written and the information contained therein has been accumulated by the writer from actual experiences. Read every article every week and you will soon see where you have been wasting money for years by buying out of GRIMSBY. We met a lady on. the street on Tuesday morning and she said "I want to get to the other side of the street, how do I do it?" "Why, go across on one of the crossings," we replied. "But WHERE ARE THEY?" she asked. We couldn't tell her, but we did the next best thing, we' told her where they once were located. GRI'MSBY Main street is a sea of mud and there is not a crossing to be seen or to befound for pedestrians to cross from one side of the street to the other on. This is not the fault of thetown council, but is the fault of the Road Committee and the Road Superintendent of the County. Main street is a county road, but it has less' work done on it than is; done on any other piece of road in the county. Once upon a time' there were four good cement crossings on Main street, but we defy anyone to find the slightest evidence of a crossing .to-day. It is an impossibility for anyone to cross from one side of the street to the other without getting _covered with mud. It makes no difference where you cross the street, one spot is as good ag another; Of course, we all go to the spot where the crossing used to be, but we could cross at any point in the road and not gather up any more mud. It is time the County Road Superintendent or the County Road Com- mittee or whoever is to blame, wokiup and gave GRIMSBY some little consideration with regard to this question. This is not a new situation but is one that has been iatstisesnce Mr years. GRIMSB'Y pays more money into the /,r/ttr-1i(-iry year in taxes than any other municipality in the county and gets less than any other municipal- ity. It is high time that this condition of affairs was remedied. 1f the county does not want to provide GRIMSBY with proper crossings, then it is up to the town council to build the crossings and deduct the cost of them from the taxes to be paid to the county next year. There is more than one way of skinning- a cat and if we cannot get out just dues one way We will create a way in which to get them. A meeting of the executive and of ficers of the GRIMSBY Soft Ball League was held in the GRIMSBY 'ClubRoms on Friday night last and a lot of business was transacted. ' Secretary Farrell announced that the INDEPENDENT was donating individual prizes for: the winning team and that Reeve C. T. Farrell would also donate prizes to the players on the team finishing second in the' race. Rules and regulations were drawn up and it is the intention ot the officials that every player and team live up to them. The umpires will be backed 'up by the officials in all their decisions but the teams have the right to protest. Twelve men will be allowed to a team, and each player must be sign- ed up by that team before he can play. No player will be allowed to :play with any other team than the one he is signed with. A committee was appointed to see what kind of a. celebration can be run off on May 24th in connection with the opening of the playing sea- son. Another meeting will be held in' a few days when the loose details in connection with the schedule will be cleaned up. GRIMSBY, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28th, 1920 BALL LEAGUE Mialilliill W READ PAGE SEVEN I Smut n wheat, oats, barley, and all cereal grains cat be easily and cheap 1y killed with Wire’s Smutine.. It is a solution of tttrmaidehyde gas in water and is of a definite and stand- ard strength. Supplied in all quanti- Ities with full dreetions for use. lParke & Parke Limited, Market Square, Hamilton. GRIMS’BY is to have a new beauty spot, if the present plans of the GRIMSBY Horticultural Society do not miscarry. It is, we believe, the intention of the Society to take a plot of vacant ground in the town and beautify it' this summer. At present it looks very much as it the round corner at the Alexandra School would be the spot selected and if it is it will certainly be a beau tiful place this summer. Shrubs and flowers would be planted there and the grass would be mowed regu- larly. Seats would be placed there and it would really be a little park and resting place and perhaps a low ers nook in the eventide. The annual flower show according to reports, which will be held in June promises to be the largest and finest ever held by the society. NEW BEAUTY SPOT STOP RAISING SMUT © 1910 " Inn. "null amen. Inc. MUSIC . Many complaints from very re- liable citizens have reached the INDEPENDENT anent the ac- tions of the man who is handling the steam roller on the road building work which is being car ried on between the town and the Beach. This man, whoever he is, is according to the residents en- tirely unfit for the job that he is on, and has absolutely no regard lor the safety of the travelling public. He refuses to notice anyone approaching from any direction and "Hogs" the road at all times. He not only disre- gards the right of travellers in machines but has absolutely no respect for the man driving a horse and rig Last week several people driving along this road with horses were forced over in. to the ditch and one or two of them whose horses became fright ened at the roller had mighty narrow escapes from being upset. This man if-he has any regard for his job wants to be mighty i careful or he will be hunting a I new job. He may be an employee of the government but that does not give him any more privileges than if he was working for Bill Jones. If he wants to hold his job he wants to come down to earth and have some respect tor the travelling public or the IN - DEPENDENT will make it a spe- cial point to see, that a more capable man is put in his place. TWELVE PAGES MEMORIAL TABLET UN- VEILEI] M PARISH fllll1 Five Heroic Pupils of St. Andrews Sunday School Who Gave Their Lives In France Are Honored On Sunday afternoon, April 25, 1920, there was unveiled, in St. An- drews Parish Hall, a beautiful mem- orial shield, to the honor of! those pu- gils at; tlyg Sunday fii?hoo1 who, in the past Great War, gave their lives to the Empire. This shield is a beau- tiful piece ot handiwork, bearing at the top, a scroll with the words "Our Church-u-Sunday School War Memorial-Our Country" and at the bottom a square silver placque in- scribed “1918-19 Endowment Fund In- dian and Eskimo Migsion1, M, S. C. C." while in the body ot the shield are placed tive, silver maple leafs, each inscribed with the name of one of the honored dead. It was placed in the Parish Hall, through the efforts of! the scholars of the Sunday School, as a silent tribute to the honor and unselfish courage ot their former comrades. t After the opening exercises, the Superintendent gave a brief outline of the efforts put forth by the schol- ars and teachers, toward the secur- ing of the shield; and this was im- mediately followed by' the unveiling, which was, done by Mr. A. Nelles Rutherford, the inscription being read by J. A. M. Livingston, viz "In the faith of Jesus Christ we unveil and (Continued on page 4) T When County Court resumed on Tuseday afternoon last, His Honor Judge Campbell announced that he had decided that J. D. Brown was guilty of the theft of three cases of whiskey from the Canadian Express Office at GRIMSBY. The judge rul- ed that the confe<:s:.c-n signed by Brown was admissible as evidence. E. H. Lancaster, tor the prisoner, made an eloquent plea for leniency. He referrer] to the young mite and child who would be left it the pris- oner were imprisoned. His Honor decided that the ends of justice would be snrved by a sus- pended sentence. lllSfEglilll nil MOI Ill0li GOES FREE $1.50 PER YEAR, 4c PER COPY II- One time, in the Parliament of Canada, Richard Cartwright got to his feet to remark that the then pro- jected railroad to the Pacific coast would not pay for the grease it took to keep the wheels moving. No Need for Duplicate Lines Which Are Owned by the Pub- lic-Senator E. D. Smith Called Pessimistic by Montreal Wit- ness. flffffu)fl1 UN BHANI] TRUNK RECOMMENDED They did not call it so then, bat this road, optimistically projected by John A. Macdonald and pessi- mistically and politically opposed by Edward Blake' and Richard Cart- wright, is now the Canadian Pacih1: Railroad, without question the great- est railway system on the face of the globe to-day. ’ Some years ago E. D. Smith of the Helderleigh Fruit Farms at Winona conceived the idea that he could beat tradition and ship fruit over this same Canadian Pacific railroad to Manitoba. Many of the wiseacres of the neighborhood, many of them much older in years and experience in fruit growing than Ernest Smith, Shook their heads in solemn pessim ism. But E. D. went into the west- ern market (this is nearly twenty years ago), and established a con- nection or rather many of them, and continued to ship fruit across the ‘Red River for many years, gradually extending to the foothills of the' Rocky mountains. I guess he is do- ing it yet. Some few years ago I .heard the same, then become Senator Smith, ex press a little dubiousness about the practicability of Public Ownership of Public Utilities. He was not pessim- istic. Only duhious. He has since proven that his dubiouithesss only consisted of a little lack of study of the question. He voted for the Bill by which the Dominion 'of Canada becomes owner of the Grand Trunk Railway System,. second only in Canada'to the great C. P. R., "and when added to that other ‘big system, the Canadian Northren, will make as the Canadian National Railway a. most wonderful system. The reason for all this preliminary is to show that Senator Smith never was a pesssimist, was always an op- timist, and, at times, making short cuts to the future, that those who thought themselves "advanced" could not even visualise, and that when he studies a subject it is almost invar- iably to act for the right side. 'But here is what Idind that great exponent of justice, (as it sees it from its pessimistic viewpoint), the Mon- treal Witness, has to say of S nator Smith's address in the Senate on April 20: , “Electrification of railways owned by the Dominion as soon as and whenever economically practicable, was advocated in the Senate on Thursday. Incidentally sum) pessi- mistic views of the outlook ot the Hydro Electric raidial railway sys- tem projected in Ontario, were ex- pressed. Senator E. D. Smith of Win- ona, Ont., who urged the substitution of electricity tor steam as a motive power on railway lines urged that the Government should at least run- dertake the carrying out of his idea on lines in Ontario which it now con trolled and later on Grand Trunk lines which it would acquire and which the Hydro-Electric Power Commission and interested Ontario Municipalities were proposing to par- allel. He advised the Government to consider the loss of traffic which its system would suffer through dup- lication of roads in Ontario. He and other Senators foresaw only loss to the municipalities and the Province of Ontario it the Hydro radials were constructed." "Eleetrte Railways” (By Mille) PAGES Ito8