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Soe: Cound "yet re lected by clamation on Monday last. IW, Crigsier was™ nominate: for the office of Reeve and Mr. Ploughman | as Councillor; but both these gentle {| men' withdrew from the contest. : Nominations 1a Reach The Nomination Meeting gn the Fownship of Reach, was held in the town hall at Manchester on Monday last. A large number of ratepayers were present, the hall being filled right up. Many Nominations were made for Council, but at the time of writing the ; list remaining in the field reads as 2 ¥ "of | follows: y BG BO FOR REEVE Ralph MelIntyre, Groh Lng }{ William M. Real, R. M. Holtby. FOR DEPUTY-REEVE-Thos Dobson elected by aeclamation. FOR COUNCILLORS--Nelson S. Baird DM. Johnsen, John Stone, :Allae Moore, John Johnson, Allan Goode, Jos Peel, Wm. Bowles, We are unable to wait for the fully revised Jist. Many candiiaiés may have * withdrawn before the paper reaches our subscribers. Good reads came up for discussion, and 'there was a p'easing tendency in nearly all the ipeec hes to consider the County Good Roads movement more favorably than in former years. Mis quite likely that could the tate: 4 payers again voice their opinion on | this matter the vote would be quite different than at the'last expression {when the Good Roads 1dea had been {assumed by tne County Council with- out having consulted the people. Recent years have been heavy ones mn road maintenance, and county ex- {'penditure in road and bridge building 13 and 18¢ H 13¢ has been large. Sonte general system 15¢ and 20¢ of work for the whole county would To 20¢ effect a saving to the ratepayers by se- rs F421 50 curing permanent roads, a good part of the expense being borre by the Government. Nominations at Port Perry _ The following persons were Nomin- ated. FOR REEVE George Gerow, Jas Stonchotise, FOR COUNCIL, LORS John Jeffrey, Hugh Carmichael, W. H. Henders, James Lucas, James Stane- | house, Samuel Grahath, James Wad : ; James L. Forman, H. G, Hutch- on, C, R. Stewart, Jas Munro. FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES-- Mr. Jo ia 5 a ide, "| securing help. .| Bigelow was looking at matters dif- ferently as they were still paying taxes on the railway bonus. had been made to secure information, and "84 far alt r {secured had been favorable to Mr. ; raised. by" selling ecdss of the project de- On the ability of the man, and Flavélle had satisfied imsell on 2: . Simnpk ins next ype. He ver- fd the'statement regarding demand stating that canwers were &'fo supply"sixty per cent of RE feretved. = Che ollowing items will give some of the average amount of pro- e grown on an acre. Corn 4 tons a 90 per ton--§3z2. Peas z tons at. $30.00 per ton--$60.00, In the case of these two articles the grower féains the pea straw or corn husks ad can use them for feed. They nike a valuable by-product which generally makes it profitable to carry |. on' dairying; When growing stuff for the nning' "factory. ; he acreage required to run the factory nocessfully is ~ Corn 300 ayes; peas 150 tO 200 acres; beans Ac co fis Wade with the grower fixing t the Ea paid, and when the farmer ence starts to supply canning factory, produce you can't' get rid of him said Mr, Sigpkins. T'herunning season at the Vittoria fédtory this year has been from the last week i June to the end of Nov- ¢tnber, and $10,000 has been paid in wages and salaries this season. The help required would be ai enquil number of 'male and female hands, apd if a sufficiint number of persons cannot 'be secured locally, they can be brought m from the out "ifhere have been ne camming factory failuges to the knowledge of Mr. Simpkins for five years, My. Simpkins has bad many years' experience with the Dominion and Quaker canning people. My. Wm. Graham has recently been travelling through a canning factory district, and stated that every other kind of enterprise had been given up except growing canning goods and dairying. Mr. Bigelow spoke opposing the by-law on the ground that The amount of the loan asked was too large for the security offered. The shortness of the season when the factory would be operated. 3--The project was starting in on too large a scale. 4 He discounted Mr. Flavelle's disinterestednéss on the ground that he had a building to dispo~e¢ of and naturally would be glad to find a purchaser - 6--There will be great difficulty in 6---"The canning factory willemploy too few men. 7--If the projbet was so good the di rectors of the company could. guar- antee € town against arly danger of loss: ¥ Mr. s. Jeffrey spoke along the. same lines, He was glad to'learn that Mr, Reeve (erow said that every effort that 'had been "A letter was read from ighly. 'recommending' Mr. fis faciryes a great Toss the. loan | town it was not furnish ait ; To I could. smell the sca, 80 ta, Augnuting, hich, is thts. % SinaLe cores Bou Pn "interest. Withdrawals of part or the 1 3 VINGS deposited th ak a J draw the highest current rate of 'wholé amount may be made when- ever desired without delay. ag nt Branches at = -- As the matter now stands a new by-law must be submitted to the people, which cannot be done until after the new Council arg elected. The vote will Tkely be taken in Abo 'in i Sidewalks Cement sidewalks laid during the year 1912-9293 ft,'at a cost of 7 cents and 82 mills per. ft; of this there was 1494 ft. laid at high school Said walks re juired 145 1oads or gravel rsz barrels of cement. There was also a water on Cochraue St 1506 ft. long, cost of 73 cents and 64 mills" the balance of the street account was expended on streets, except one item, that is John Cassidy is now puid out of the strect account formerly Mr. McKnight was paid by salary. This' years expenses higher on account of scarity of labor, teamsters received 50 rs, per. day more than fn the past yetirs hd digging out the drain for main cost 50 cts. per, rod more than formerly. main at a are from Myr, Letter Carnegie Kissimmee, Florida, Dear Editor, -- I told you when I was leaving Port Perry to come down here that 1] might drop you a line telling about anything that is diiferent to things in Ontario. In first place I might tell you of the route we came by. We left Lor- onto on the 4.40 G.'I. R. to where we were transferred to Fort Street Depot which we left that night for Cinneinnatti. ~ We had about an hour stop over next morning and then started on an all day tripe on a fine train through Kentucky and Tennes- see to Chattanooga. We travelled through most of Georgia at night but in the morning could see that we were getting south pretty well. Along about noon we pulled into Jacksonville which everybody down hear shortens to "Jax" After securing comfortable large airy rooms at the Evere't hotel at one dollar a day we went to a very good restaurant next door and had a cracking nice medl for very little money. 'Then we set out to see the city and we were sure pleased to find it such a' busy place. 'The streets and parks are crowded with paim tress, maples, oaks ahd magnolias and there are rose bushes and - 'other kinds of shrubs and ghnts in bloom is twenty odd miles out from it made me feel so good 1 RC sect, sO we .arranged to seven miles south east of "Jax", laid Dec. 230d 12! Detroit | {ping them along in PORT PERRY BRANCH Sa Bion Maneef fot SR] . Manager), find-all the rest were in too. It was great. 'The beach 1s hard fine sand and there is not a rock to be seen anywhere. But there are lots of pretty shells and the ladies got busy right away picking them up and then throwing them away when they came to place where there were lots nicer ones. We had a clam stew and then went and iuspected the alligator farm. The Florida "cracker" who runs the place told us the ages' of the big brutes. One old fellow whé laok- ed as grouchy as the mischief was four hundred years old, so he sald, In one pen there was' about two thousand little, fellows. not a foot long, a year old, and you can buy them at a dollar apiece. x, Next morning we came on here an we have been in Kissimmee ever since This town is situated at the head of inland navigation to the Gulf of Mex- ico but you have to over two bundred miles if you go by water, and it is'only about seventy country, We are just about im the middle of the State. Fhe Take here, Tohopekalagi; is a line sheet of water about twelve by ten miles. Two miles across from town there is an island called Paradise Island and it hives up to it's name. We went over there the other day in a launch and really 1t was beautiful. = It is a natural park with splendid sand beaches, nats ural lawns, magnificant pals, cyprus, pine; magnolias, soft maples and many other varieties of tree all growing naturally and covered with Spanish moss which does not grow because the air is damp, but because go miles across oaks, the air down here is so good that } everything has to grow in it his moss even grows on the electric wires cand 1s fine for making cushions and "mattresses. There is about 'a three acre peach orchard on Paradise Island and we saw blossoms and small young peaches on the same trees. The owner af the plage told us that he had sold his crop last year At an average eight dollars a basket. He has pamed them Maiden Blush peaches and he starts ship- February. 'Then there is a fine grapefruit and orange grove and some fine vegetable gardens all in the pink of condition All around Kissimmee there is the same thing. Arriving back at St. Augustine we made a ramble through some of the queerest and quaintest streets to be found anywhere this side of the old country. On one street, which is brick paved about wide cnough for a cart to pass through, we found an old house that had been built in 1545. It was still intact and is used by some old Civil War veterans as. a curio store. Other places along the street, which were built and occupied when Count Ponce de Leon and other Spanish grandec's were roaming about this part of the world, are still stand~ ing and put to commercial use. St, Augustine 1s essentially a show place. It is too beautiful and too staid to be hey else. The pri es asked for ol '| souvenirs and necessities are not ex e cessive, however and 'the "visitor Hree to roam ar through "the. many bazadrs-and stores without the slightest fear of being treated as other than a guest. Every, sit question is anda Boome b ar 5 IFEER SEES ag wa Wh WA ong wi