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s 7) illiams, Second Part: Alice Williams, 'Ernest 'Raines, | Spence, Douglas Taylor, Edgar In- t, Cora! gram, Ferguson Munroe, Donald Florence! Anderson, Francis: Brisco, Britton | Flint, Roy Reynolds, Leighton Mc (8) Senior Pt 1.t0 Junior Second Lo George McGuire, Emést Spence {Edna McKenzie, Burns Milne, Elzear gin Profit, Edna Goode, Vera Bowerman, fd owman, Elgin Wildman, ARL ROSS On Monday. evening. ast rl Ross, a young fellow of about 'seventeen years, was = bathing and playing in Lake! Scugog down by the dock 'the foot of Queen Street the group with him were some dozen boys. They nu 0d up.a spring board by -- "and were having a good time oral diving. ng;! One after another they dived in rapid succession, and Karl was-among the number. The heads would disappear and come to the surface again here there and all over. A few minutes before the boys went to dress, Karl made a jump with a number of others, and no one noticed that he did not come up again. '| It is thought that when the boy dived, he struck the bot- tom, and that his head stuck in the mud. It 'is certain that the place in 'which the boys were having their fup is en- tirely unsuited for the purpose It is very muddy, and is filthy in other ways, When the boys had dressed they 'missed Karl, and then the sad search begun, The task took about two hours, before the body was recover- ed.. Dr. Colville was called and made an examination, but could find no bruises or 'other The body was moved to the undertaking rooms of W. H, | | Letcher & Son, and was buried SE from a a Made Farmer to His Son Bobczygeon, Ontario, July 10, 1912 To Mr. James Tompkins, Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Jim-- Glorious weather! Yes, even that thunder storm was glorious There's a lot of folks that needs a thunder storm in their lives. They go along sobby and sad and sour as a bit of undrained land. They is that solomcholy and grumbly that there's no richness in them. They ain't got life enough in them even to be bad. 1 tell you a fellow must get his blood stirred up if he be going to do anything in this world. Now there's Sister Wilkins. She's terrible good and pious--ain't never done nothing wrong sence she could mind; and she ain't done nothing good sence anybody else could mind. The other day a man called to see Sister Wilkins and propesed--that she join an egg circle, Did she join? No &it 'she couldn't be -bothered. She gathered the eggs once a week whether they needed it or not, and when she took them lo the store she got just as much for them as other folks did.No sir she couldn't be bothered gathering them eggs every day, even if the Egg Circle folks does get more for their eggs. I've been reading the papers a lot lately and find them most too exciting tor me. Now there's folks that can wade through a couple of them papers every day and look for more--wouldn't think they was up-to-date if they didn't. Of course I learned a whole iot of history. First and foremost though there a bit of geography 1'd like you to learn--Billinsgate has been shifted from London to Chicago. Next, the great guessing contest has starfed in the States--who's going to be President? It beats guessing the number of beans in a jar for excitement. Someone ought to invent a game and call it Nominations. Then they've put down the duty an cement, and that's a good thing no matter who did it. I've got a notion that taxes had ought to be put on luxuries, and took off necessities as much as they can, for it ain't no use killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Of course the cemcnt folks saw blue ruin staring them in the face, and they found that they was all wrong in their figures that they give in them little books called prospectuses that tells all about the cost of making and the big profits they makes. You was asking me what I thought of buying some land out West and so I'll tell you square what I do think. In the first place, there aint no manner of doubt that some folks is making a lot of money oat in them parts, and there ain't no use denying that you might hit the lucky number. . Then again lots of folks is losing money out in the West. and you stands just as good a chance as anybody else of losing yours. - You buy at a steep figure and have to sell at a steeper figure if you're going to mike anything out of the deal. After awhile _prices'll be that steep, that somebody is going to fall off and get bumped. Someone is going to have to build on . them building lots and farm that farming land. Someone has got to earn. interest on the money. they paid for them Western fortune makers of their. And them's the people that ought to.make the money----the folks : that earn it; and not a lot of slick tongued gents what - nevet done a tap. except put up an oily line of talk. Ontario is good enough. for any fellow that's willing to work. If folks "ud live tire like they does in the West, and work andspend and: > h bere as they docs out there, 'wé 'could boom' the od i as Alberta and Saskatchewan, ; : ou m4 re sits kd Yok con get duiarion hte for 3 nigh §