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SE RN | A RE RP EASTERN ONTARIO NEWS [= PORT HOPE MARKET A fair 'attendance was at the Port Hope market Saturday morn- and the farmers reported good in all lines of produce. Prices have not changed much from & week, with butter selling at per ior and eggs at 39¢. Sir- 26¢, round steak 23ec, to 20¢, stewing beef 13ec. - Thiele '30¢, loin 28¢, shoulder pork (ham) 22¢, loin 22¢, " ulder 17¢, liver ver 10e. WATCHMAN 18 1S HURT Louis Eccles, of Kingston, em- oyed by the Canada Steamship es as night watchman on the steamer Mapleheath, was found un- conscious in the engine room of that vessel Saturday morning when the day staff came on duty, evi- dently having fallen from ome of the ladders leading down to the en- gine room while on his way to tend a fire. He is at present in a seri- ous condition in the hospital. OITY GARBAGE COLLECTION The City Council Health Commit- tee of Kingston decided thai the city's garbage will no longer he collected under contract system, but will be collected and disposed of by the eity itself, as it can be done cheaper. One mill will ne garbage tax rate this year. The Civic Finance Committee fixed tho rate of 38 mills for general and schoo! purposes, so that 39 mills wi be the tota rate this year or 13 mills more than in 1927. PETERBORO MARKEY There was a small market Sat- urday morning at Peterboro. Pro- duce was fairly plentiful, but there were not many buyers. ¥Eggs rang- ed in price from 35 to 40 cents a dozen. Butter was 40 cents a pound, and chickens 85 cents a pound. On the open market pota- toes were selling from $1.50 to $1.- 75 a bag. Little pigs were $8.00 a palr. Pork was quoted from 14 to 18 cents a pound. Beef at 18 cents, and veal at 20 and 25 cents. WILL ASK Thomas G Bishop, Kingston, President of the Urban School Trustees' Association of Ontario. announces he will lead a deputation of Trustees from all the cities and large towns of Ontario to wait on the Finance Minister and other Cabinet Ministers to ask for a con- tinuance of grants to the various Provinces for the conduct of technl- cal education in centres of popnla- tion, The Trades and Lahor Con- gress will similarly approach the Government. MARKET AT PRESCOTT Prices on the whole did not show much change at Prescott. Butter ranged fromy 42 to 45¢ a pouma and eggs sold readily for 40¢ a dozen. New lettuce made its first appearance and sold for Se a small bunch; head lettuce 15¢ each. Cab- bage 5 to 10¢; carrots, THe; tur- nips, 60¢; parsnips, 75¢: potatoes, $1.50; onions, $1.75 to $2 a bush- el; parsley, Se; celery 10 to 135e. Chickens were searce, only a few being offered at 35 cents a pound. Apples, $1.50 to $2.50 a bushel; hay, $10 to $12 a ton; oats, 63 to 68c a bushel. SISTER MARY ANTOINETTE DIES At the Mother House of the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Concep- tion, Pembroke, on Sunday mern- ing, shortly after midnight, one of their - esteemed and devoted members, Sister Mary Antoinette, died after a lingering illness. Sis- ter Mary Antoinette was the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Shea o! Richmond. Ont., and entered the novitiate of the Grey Nuns of Ot- tawa in 1876. The funeral Muss, chanted by his Lordship Right Rev, P. T. Ryan, D.D., Bishop of Pem- broke, will take place in St. Colum- ba's Cathedral, Pembroke, Tues- day, March 20, at 9 a.m, GETTING OUT A PAPER Getting out a paper is no pienle. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly, If we don't, serious. If we publish original they say we lack variety, If we publish things fram other papers, we are too lazy tn write. If we are rustling for news, we are not attending to business in our own department. If we don't print contributions, we don't show proper application. If we do print them, the paper is filled with junk. Like as not some fellow will say they say we are too matter, | we purloined this from another pa- per We did--and we Dental Craftsman. thank him.-- FIND BODIES Near Ghost Island, in Lawrence River, two and a the St. halt miles south of Gananoque, the hody | peck; Syracuse | cents; young pigs were $9 a pair; | of J. C. Hetherington, manufacturer, was found in his car Saturday afternoon. The car THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MARCH 19. 1926 Pooh pulled out of the water. The body of Mrs. Maude Peters, who accompanied Mr. Hetherington, was was found yesterday afternoon meas by. Mrs. Peters was formerly Miss" Maude Lalonde, who was born and BRITAIN CLEARS GREAT JUNGLE AREA March 18.--A great I a spent her schooldays in Ga Mrs. Peters and Mr. Hetherington we's motoring from Syracuse to Gananoque on Feb. 25, and disap- peared. Subsequent search showed that the tracks of the car led across the ice of the river to a stretch of open water. A diver was brought frome Syracuse 10 search for the car and it soceupants. JOHN S. O'BRIEN DIES John Sarsfield O'Brien, 36, son of the late Edward O'Brien, K.C., Prescott, died at the home of his mother, at Kingston, shortly be- fore noon om Sunday. In his earlier career, he was a bank clerk and later held positions in Co- bourg and Oshawa manufacturing concerns. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. He is survived by his wife, formerly Lil- lian Darragh, o fthis city. His mother and two brothers, Edward of Windsor, and William, of St. Louis. COBOURG MARKET There was a good attendance at the Cooburg market on Saturday morning, most of the produce be- ing practically cleaned out by ten has , a.m. Beef-'and pork brought the same price as a week ago, former selling from 15 to 27 cents and the latter ranging from 13 to 23 cents, Cabbages sold for 15 cents per head, carrots and beets for 35 cents a peck, turnips for Sc each, parsnips for 10 cents and apples for 25 cents a basket, comb honey sold for 20 cents, Chick- ens weer scarce, a few on sale were offered at 25 cents a pound. Kggs varied from 33 to38 cents a dozen and butter brought 43 cents. AT BELLEVILLE MARKET The market on Saturday was one of the busiest held in Belle- ville for some weeks, this owing to the good conditions of the roads. Farm and garden produce were of- fered for sale in abundance. A feature was drpp in price of fresh eggs, selling 30 and 32 cents a dozen. Ruling price was 45 cents a pound. The only fish for sale were her ring, which went at six cents. Onions sold at but the smaller variety had for 60 cents, and 40 cents with 'the latter price more prevalent; turnips were 30 cents a peck; carrots, 40 cents a cabbage, 5 cents and 10 hay, $12 a Toad, and potatoes 40 cents a peck and $1.50 a bushel. the | for butter | Honey in | the comb sold at 15 cents a pound. | for 25 | could be | Beets were 30 | tract of undulating country at Sel- etar, six miles from Singapore, has | been cleared of rubber, cocoanut of toms of earth have been shovel- led, to make a landing ground for Great Britain's new Far East Air station. A few months ago the area was virgin jungle, but through { the efforts of seventeen British en- | | gineers, with a foree of 1,500 Chi- nese and Tamil coolies, the air base has rapidly been taking shape. Singapore is likely, from its geo- graphical position, to be one of the great air ports of the future. new base is designed both for land planes and seaplanes, and the pro- bability is that if the Anglo-Indian airship route is extended to Aus- tralia a huge airship mooring mast wil! also be erected at Seletar. Material is already there for the construction of a seaplane hangar 250 feet long, giving a clear open- ing of 120 feet and capable of housing Britain's largest existing | seaplane or flying boat. [It is hers that the four Royal Air Force su- permarines which recently made a flight from England will be perma- | | nently based. A fifth flying boat of the same type, Imantled as a reserve plane, is now being erected there. The barracks at the Seletar Base { will house fifty airmen, while more than 1.000 yards of firm gravel roads have been constructed as sunways for aircraft during the weather. -------------------------- McDONALD CASE GOES TO CABINET COUNCIL Ottawa, March 18.--The capital case of George and Doris McDon- ald, sentenced to he hanged next Friday at Valleyfield, will go to the Cabinet Council probably on Tuesday, but possibly on Monday. J. A. Legault, K.C, counsel for the condemned couple, is here. | It was learned that, especially as regards the case of the woman, Paris McDonald, some new facts have heen elicited within the past | few days. The Minister of Justice despatch- ed the chief of the Clemency Branch to Montreal, where he speng three days in looking into the case, A report is heing prepared. Meanwhile official secrecy is heing maintained. The statement publish- ed to the effect that the Quehec I'rovineial authorities have inti- 0 cents, | mated their opposition to any cle- toward Doris McDonald is without foundation. intervened in the mency learned to be They have not matter at all, A voluminous review of the evidence in the case, together with facts elicited an the private in- vestigation just concluded, is heing made to the Minister of Justice, and will he transmitted to the Cabinet Council with a recommen- Decidedly New Sports I rive) With their wide self belts, multiple pockets, yoke shoul- ders, seamless backs and fabric flowers. Marvelous coats at Al eis 2 | ported the SHOP AT THE. ARCADE Simcoe St. North |! between the dation as to the course which should he pursued. Meanwhile it seems possible that | a distinction will he drawn between cases of the man and the woman, | with differently, especially | light of the private investigation and the supplementary facts estab- lished. EARTHQUAKE FELT IN NEW YORK AREA March 18, -- Earth jarred windows, \ broke dishes and caused general apprehension, shook Northeastern New York this morning between 10 and 10.30 o'clock. The tremors were felt in Sara- ! nac Lake, where the shock was so | severe that many residents fled ! their homes during the tremors. No injuries and no serious proper- ! ty damags was reported. | Geologists have explained, fol- | lowing previous earth tremors, that shifting of rock Fault, in this section of the Adir- , ondack Mountains, is responsible for the quakes. The last quake of several in the past 20 years was felt on Febru- ary 28, 1925. The shocks were accompanied by a grinding and roaring. They also were ®It on the Canadian side of the border, according to word reaching American points in the shaken area. The tremors were felt in Sara- mac Lake at 10.20 o'clock, in Lake Placid at 10.22 and in Plattsburg | at 10.27. : In Helen Hill section of Saranac dishes were shaken from shelves and reports from near-by sections said several buildings ! wrenched. The shock here and at . Plattsburg lasted 10 seconds, while Lake lacid residents re- shocks lasted only a Albany, , shocks which moment. IBSEN MEMORIAL Oslo, March 18 --Today's pro- gram in the celebration of the Ib- sen centenary comprised a me- moial concert hy the Philharmonic SoSciety, a gala performance of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People," and a supper by the Norwegian Society of Dramatic Artists. { The concert, which was given in the big hall of Oslo Univesity, was | composed entirely of Norwegian 'music and largely of settings by | Grieg of lbsen verses and scenes from Ibsen plays, including suites from "Peer Gynt," which have . made the name of Grieg famous among music lovers everywhee, WINER RETURNS There was a return to Winter conditions at Peterboro yesterday | with a heavy snow storm. There | was not a great deal of wind and the snow served to fill in the hol- | lows and rough places created by the thaws of the past few days. FOR NEW AIRPORT! and wangrove trees, and millions | The | which arrived dis- | and they may be dealt | in the in Logan's | had been | DEATH-CAR DRIVER SOUGHT IN THE U. §. Niagara Falls, Ont., March 15.-- John J. O'Brien of Niagara Falls, for whom a reward of $1,000 has been offeed by the Provincial Pe- | lice, is mow believed to be in the | neighborhood of Lockport, NY. {and an intensive search is being | made by the police across the | river, assisted by members of the Ontario force. O'Brien is said to have been the man who drove the car which killed William Hay and his daughter Jean in Stamford | Township on Sunday evening last. | His, companion, Francis M. Farrell, this city, was picked up on Tues- day, and is held as an accessory | after the fact to manslaughter. ra 00 | The car has been located, and it | is understood trat O'Brien crossed | the bridge back to the United States on Monday morning, visited his home, got some money, and made his way to Roghester, N.Y., where all trace of him was lost for | some time. He was reported yester- | day to have been seen in Lockport, where he has some friends, and | the search moved to that area. He | will be charged with manslaugh- | ter, a warrant having been issued Ba that charge. MAKES 1,433 LOOPS, QUITS FOR GOOD St. Paul, Minn., March 18.--A world's record of 1,433 consecu- tive loops in an aeroplane was es- tablished on Saturday by Charles ("Speed") Holman of Minneapolis, beating the former mark by more than 300. The old figure was 1,111 loops, established in France by A. Fron- val. It was 'the second time in Te- || cent weeks that Holman had bet- tered the record. Gene Shank of | St. Paul set a mark of more than 500, which was beaten by Holman with 1,093 twirls. Then came the 1,111 loops hy Fronval. Holman ascended shortly after noon, and remained in the air five hours. He carried 97 gallons of gasoline, which was exhausted when he landed. "Anybody who wants to beat that record can have it," said the | | | | Hard Wood Blocks Td $7.00 HardWood Blocks "x $5.00 City's Greatest Value GENERAL MOTORS®' WOOD TRUCK LOAD Approximately ONE CORD WAGON LOAD Approximately 12 CORD Per fie $3. 50 nie 2G 2 Four Direct Lines to Central DIXON COAL CO, Where Service, Quality and Price are Right weary pilot just after he had land- ed. 'No more of it for me." CHURCHES' DISPUTE WILL END IN COURT gion was housed was awarded to | the United Church by the Church Property Commission, and after the congregation left the United | Church that body laid claim to the property, but the congregation refused to give it up, and posted guards at the doors in order to pre- vent the United Church ministers from conducting services. The U'ni- ted Chutch has now taken action for damages for $1,100, and seeks a court order to have the proper- ty returned. Montreal, March 18.--The action of the Italian Mission in moving back to the Preshyterian fold after joining the United Church of Can- ada at the time of Church Union had its sequel in the civie courts here. The building in which the mis- lice say, and Saturday night a fierce battle is alleged to have héen stag- ed by the two men, axes being used in the fray. The police say that one of Kelly's sons lost part of a finger, it being chopped off in the melee. ALLEGE AXES WERE USED IN FIGHT London, Ont., March 18.--W.L. Winger and his wife, Jenny, charg- ed with keeping a disorderly honse, and William Kelly, "grass widow= er," charged with disorderly con- duct, are in the Middlesex County Jail. Six children of the two house- holds are being cared for in the ; during the previous season, were Children's Shelter here. 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