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Ris a & of S 2 =a neg ) SB | plata 3 3 Te " 2 3) # ¢ 3 * 5 ose a Tos f Every year the question arises|im Wren of the County Council, el MI '® Letcher's request would be re- "As intimated in my letter of ~ 'authorizing us to advise you of * the reasons for the reduction of re . Wateh your label; it tells when your PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, ARPIL 5th, 1934 3 1 SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher SERGE A SS gog 'as to whether the water levels are kept sufficiently high in Lake Scugog.: This year the matter was brought to the and a committee was appointed to investigate. The members of the committee--Messrs. Wm, Parrott, Jonathan Aldred, and W. M. Letcher--met Mr. Killaly, Superintending Engineer of the Trent Canal, together with a committee from Victoria County Council; and the whole matter was discussed. LAs Subsequent to that meeting Mr, Letcher wrote to Mr. Killaly and asked for an explanation of Lake conditions which might be published, so that the ratepayers might be aware of the facts. Killaly replied that Mr. By ferred to Dttawe and the follow- ing letter resuaed: a _ Peterboro, Ont., March 29; '34 Dear Sir:- : IEE the 3rd inst,, we forwarded your letter of the 2nd inst., to the De- partment and promised to write you upon receipt of a reply. We are to-day in receipt of a letter from the Department the water level of Lake Scugog during the winter. The procedure followed on Lake Scugog is similar to that which has been followed on the Kawartha Lakes for many years, though the winter reduc- tion of Scugog is only one-third of what it is on the Kawartha Lakes. When this system was --_-- ----_T---- * Water Levels portant and valuable proceed- ing for, if a Power House shuts down quickly. it is necessary to immediatley remove staplogs from these dams. If the stop- logs are allowed to freeze to great depths it is impossible to remove them for many hours and much damage might be oc- casioned in the interim. As your letter also referred to the low water during the past year and your Citizens' conten- tion that if your water was kept higher at other times of the year it would not get so low in the wintertime, I should like you to know that the season of 1933 was an unprecendented season. There was deficiency of rainfall and excessive evaporation for resulted in the depletion of stor- age and low lake levels'through- out this section of Canada, how- ever, the lake was full on Decem- ber 24th. : In order to hold Lake Scugog as high as possible during the summer and fall months, every- thing possible was done at Lind- say. All of the stoplogs were in that dam continuously from the 19th of May, except a flow of about 6 inches over one sfop- log for thirty minutes daily after the 1st of August for the purpose of refreshing the stag- nant water in the Town of Lind- say, which was done at the re- Authorities. This small flow for this purpose for such a short period each day is infinitesimal when considering the level of Lake Scugog, amounting to only Eight One Thousandths of an inch per month on Lake Scugog. inaugurated many years ago, we 'contemplated lowering Scugog|in 'staunched to prevent during the winter to a greater extent but ran into a difficutly ,..in that the Waterworks' in-take 8 at the Town of Lindsay would not permit of a greater reduc- . tion. The result has been that Scugog Lake has averaged a re- 'duction of about-18 inches only. The purposes of the reduction of these lakes during the winter months are as follows:- (1) In order to provide capa- "city to contain a portion of the - Spring run-off to prevent lakes attaining excessive levels, there- by occasioning flooding damage. (2) By the storage of this water to reduce the volume of flow at peak of freshet, thereby preventing excessive levels and erosion damages in the rivers. (8) To provide winter flow slightly in excess of power re- - quirements for the purpose of giving flow over stoplogs in con- crete dams where Power Houses draw water from Canal reaches. This excess flow over the stop- logs: prevents them from becom- ing frozen to great depths in these concrete dams. . This is an In addition to all the logs being in 'that dam, the dam "was even minute - leakage. * For your information, I am enclosing you herewith a blue print indicating, (a) In solid line, the objective of our regulations. a (b) In broken line, the .aver- age water levels above the dam years. = © (¢) In fine doted line, the average levels of Lake Scugog for the past four years, (d) In red crayon line, the levels for the year 1933. From the red line you will observe the result of the extreme.deficiency in precipitation during 1933, even though everything possible was done at Lindsay to prevent such reduction, also that the principal reduction in the level of Lake Scugog had occurred be- fore flow was provided on: the 1st of August, at the request of the Lindsay Health Authorities. I am also énclosing you here- with, a record of the level: of Lake Scugog as recorded by the gauge above Lindsay Lock on 1 RRR I tA fF STN WET SORRY, LADY, I CANT. HE You! PARDON ME~DO NOU KNOW WHAT _ CAN IT BE DONE? : STATION INDICATOR THis AUTOMATIC CHANGING SIGN FOR STREET CARS, SUBWAYS AND TRAINS SHOWS NAME OF APPROACHING STATIONS. : 55 'CAN IT BE DONE? oe pes Do you think this idea Is practical? Write Ray Gross in care of this newspaper. 11918, From the nine consecutive months which}. quest of the Lindsay Health| at Lindsay for the past eleven the 1st of March each year since : above you will note that on the 1st of March, 1934, the time you wrote, the water of Lake Scugog was high- the past sixteen years; also that the variation from year fo year at such seasons is slight, If you, or your Citizens, have any further critisisms or sug- gestions to make with regard to the regulation of Lake Scugog as intimated above and as shown on the attached Curves, we would be only too glad to receive your critisms or suggestions, I might add that Lake Scugog was practically full again on the 20th of March, 1934. Yours truly, A, L. KILLALY Superintending Engineer Reeve W. M. Letcher, *' Port Perry, Ont. TRENT CANAL . Record of Level of Lake Scugog as Recorded by Gauge Above Lind- say Lock on the 1st of March Each Year Since 1918 . Upper Gauge Year Lindsay Lock 1018 «5 is. FEES, Hy 1) PERRIER ARIE +..8-10 1920. . Fy RARE 8-9 1920.5 i sv ee 9-2 111) I TAG Era oF ..8-8 1988. Sn Svat serves 8B O24. ides ee 80 1986. aidan 8-9 1926 (5 nvidia avs 9-2 i Ly (NSE ih vee. 8-8%% 3 NIP coe 89% 19290. 0 ii sree atin 9-0 1080-50 veri iia 009-2 3 PCA ET Tr 8-10% J} ES , 9-8 1088 eee. ..9-6% 1934. «i Lia eesaaa B11 NOTE--One request was made by Mr, Killaly i.e. if any dead fish are found on the shores of the Lake this Spring, that he: should immediately be notified of the fact: 'Of course, but enough to require investigation. MYRTLE Miss Barker Bright spent the holiday .season with 'Toronto friends. = -- J Mr. G. Hahn and family and Mr. G. T. Wolfe of Toronto were at their summer homes 'here for the holiday. ~ Mr, Alvin Shell of Greenbank visited his mother, Mrs.. Frank Shell last week. : A number of the young people from here attended the dance at Utica on Good Friday night. Mrs. Rosswell daughter Joan of Oshawa and Miss Edwards of Toronto visited with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Tordiff for the week end. Mr. G. Staunton and son of Toronto visited friends here on Saturday. Mr. Oscar Downey returned from a trip West on Saturday. Bob Cross has been holidaying with relatives at Havelock. My. Levi Tordiff commenced his duties carrying the mail from Myrtle Station to Brooklin Jon. Monday. Mrs, Hattie Hudgins spent the earlier part of the week with her son in Toronto. Mr. Kenneth Moyer is spending the holiday season with his par- ents at Springfield. x Mr. Don Spencer who has been living on Mrs. T. Wilson's farm, on the eighth concession, moved last week to the West Calder farm that Mr. Ed Whippey moved from last fall. : Mr. Will Cook is with his cousin Mr, Silas Vernon of Ham- ilton. this wek, who is in very poor health, x The Pot Luck Supper served by the Women's Missionary So- ciety in the Church basement on Thursday night was much better than the name suggested and those who partook of it felt that [it more than satisfied the wants of the inner man. The chair-was. taken at 8 o'clock by Rev. Mr. Totton and a program consisting of' the Beanville Choir of Man- chester, readings by Miss Bar- rett, and the Manchester Quartette and instrumentals by Mrs, Tordiff and Mrs. Totton re- EE) er than it had been in nine out of |: Peterborogh, Ont., March 29th, 1934. this does not mean a single dead fish; | Dobson and. TERM EXAMINATIONS : FORM I Mildred Lakey....... 114% Hugh Rogers ........73 Doris Parry .........723 Margaret McCrea ....72.1 Laura Rogers ........ 70.8 Donald Christie.......68 Isabel Honey ........ 67.8 ~ Isabel Ewers ....... 67.6 Hilda Stainton. ....... 66.2 Tom Bown ......... .66.1 Archibald McMaster ..63.7 Lloyd Smith ........613 Murle McMillan ......61.1 Marjorie Byers ......60 Robert Walker ......57.9 Fred Christie ........ 57.8 'Marian Conlin ....... 67.6 Beth Archer ......... 54.8 ~ Jean Moase ......... 64.1 Leona Wells .........54 Nora Levia .,........ 52 Richard Steer .......50 7 Allan-Oke i... ....... 45.6 Ted Cooney .......... 42.2 Lloyd Harrison ..... 41.3 Keith Brown ...... ...40 Ivan Ferguson ...... 39.9 Lorne Beare ......... 37.6 Not Graded, Joan Mason 72.8 Missed four examinations. FORM II P, Jackson .. V. Wallace M. Stone ............ * M. Lee.. .. M. Nasmith . G. Stone... K. Currah ....: . Harrison ....:.... . Hopkins .... W. Pyatt ..... J. Leahy ............ R. Hall ....... K. Midgley .......... -N. McCrea ..... M. Gerrow M. Switzer ... G. Weir ... M, Hayes ........... M. Tinsley ..:vi...0. M. Martyn .. ........ G. Switzer . ......... K. Carnegie ..... WwW. Willard ..... Fee V. Stokes o.oo . Davidson Woon: ...... vines . Anderson Masters Brookes Redman .......... . Hillis Aldred "Vernon tress ene RACE BCR) ser even © DECENCY eee ee OBB BRBENAARNARNNNANARND SD DDB BD DHHS TI=1~3 FE PAA AAAS RA I ppm pu pp FcR cB Rd ces ee ean ONION =T DAO DIJO ITD HUN =ODO-TISBN SD ce ee eee RI CR RC RC A) i SUmmPEOmImER | J. "Black D. Lakey R. -Milner Report Port Perry High School L. Fralick... ........768 A, Crosier ..........72.0 M. Luke ~, .. cl 71.0 M. Smith ...... , 69.3 F. Jones .............67.2 D. Williams .........66.0 M. Beare ......... ...66.0 D. Steer... .. ........616 A. Balfour ...... iv. ..0604 R. McLean ........ ..60.1 M. Harper ........... 59.9 H. Phair ..,...... ...09.2 R. Brent ........ ....b8.1 K. Currah.. ...... ....b8.1 J.20rde ivi ...57.8 A, Anderson ..... ...06.8 C. Blewett .. ........56.8 A. Groves ....:...... 56.7 A. Lee .......... .....0b.2 M: Kight ........:.. 55.0 I. Leahy ........ ....53.9 V. Nasmith ......... 653.9 L. Lee.. 34 ....b3.8 L. Kight ..... teres 03.2 W. Leahy ...... «0. 02.8 M. Eagleson .........49.6 R. McCrea .... ......47.2 P. Palmer ......... ..46.2 W. Cawker.. ....... .46.2 M. Jones ...... vee ..4b6.8 G. Moase . ve... 443 E. Martyn ....... Le. .44.2 I. Leask ............ 438.8 M. Vickery ..........43.2 C. Beare ...........424 -B, Cawker ........... 41.1 M. Crosier ........... 40.0 D. Suddard .......... 39.3 G. Bradley ......... 37.8 R. Willard .:........ 37.2 R,. Oke .:ivnniinnniny 36 E. Hook ........... ..34 C. McMaster ........ 34.6 E. Reesor ........... 33.8 R. MacFarlane ....... 28.0 FORM V : E. Wallace ...... 387 T7.4 H. Kight ......617 77.1 '.. M. Prentice .....5626 76 : - M."Tinsley ...... 290 72.6 . L.-Currah ...... 216 72 A. Hood ....... 571 171.8 H. Williamson ..411 68.6 - R. Willan. . ..266 64 J. Ross ........ 306 61 M. Pyatt ...... 292 58.4 W. Reynolds ....285 57 R. Emerson ....446 65.7 M. McLeod ..... 444 66.6 M. Holtby ...... 277 56.4 H. Partridge.. ..496 56.1 0. Cliff ........ 308 53.4 O. Bradley ..... 300 50 P. Orde ........ 297 49.6 T. Woods ...... 347 49.6 M. McKerchar ..437 48.6 S. Smallamn ....432 48 I. Harper ,...... 428 47.5 D. Reesor ...... 368 46 A. Cawker ...... 417 45.2 E. Symes ...... 392 49 N.. McMillan ..,.309 44.1 E. Lee ........ 240 40 A. Fair ........ 392 35.6 ov Ee 220 314 M. Black ezved much applause. Mr. Geo. West of Ashburn then gave his lecture on the "Five Different Kinds of Men of Which You Are One,,--the Optomist, Pessimust, Fatalist, Socialist and Christian which was full . of practical thoughts and true to life. The procceds amounted tec eight dol- lars. : ; _ Rev. Mr, Totton delivered a special Easter message here on Sunday evening, to a splendid congregation, the choir singing Raster anthems. At the begin- ning of the service the pastor and elders received six new com- municants into the church on profession of Faith. The Sacre- ment 'of the Lord's Supper was partaken of at the close of the service. Easter lilies; tulips and carnations gave the front of the church a most seasonable effect. On Wednesday of last week, 'Mr, and Mrs, Clarence Bur- roughs and Mr, and Mrs. George Jeffrey of Brooklin- entertained about a hundred and twenty-five relatives and friends 'fiom Brooklin, Ashburn and Mrytle in the Hall here, it being the occa- sion of their fourteenth and twenty-eight wedding anniver- garies. Progresive euchre was enjoyed until lunch , when Mr, Ward of Whitby took the plat- form and with Mrs, Ivan Rodd at the piano 2d Mrs. Will Davies and Jim Cooper with vio- lins began to call off and dancing S " was indulged in until the "wee sma' hours of the morn' " when the happy gathering broke up wishing the genial hostesses and hosts many more, years wedded bliss. ' Mr. Frank Conlin of Oshawa was through here last week buy- ing horses. .. Mr. George Lynde of Ashburn was here the earlier part of the week sheering sheep for the far- mers. "he FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHER' By ALFRED BIGGS Lose hope and you're lost. LJ * LJ Truth rarely has to justify Itself, ¢ 0 0 Envy is an admission of inferiority. * * * Light love may turn any time into hate. na LJ] . . Big minds are not hurt by little crit- fefsm, > * s 4 A good listener never lacks a con. fidant. ; ¢ Er TBE Repentance is largely fear of conse- quences. L LJ] LJ Insincerity Indicates weaknesa of character, "|scalp him. of] There was a spirit of unrest be- tween the white settlers and the half breeds in the North West at the time of which I am writing, and being a member of the North West Mounted Police, I was sent to do some inves- tigating in one of the districts, In Portage La Prairie I met an old friend from Otterville, Ont, George Castle by name, who in the course of our conversation, asked me if I had ever seen an Indian Sun dance. I said no and that I would certainly like to see one. He told me there was one in progress in the vicinity and he was going out the next day, so about five o'clock the next morning we left the Portage in a buck-board with two wash-boilers of lemonade strapped on behind. The reserve was about twenty miles west of the Portage, on the road to the Tiger Hills, We arrived at the Indian village about' eight-thirty and found the place deserted, not a single human being anywhere, but we dis- covered a well beaten trail leading away from the village, so we followed this- for about a quarter of a mile when we came upon a sight worth seeing. ' The sound of the "tom toms" filled the air. This instrument by the way, is formed in the shape of the top of a cheese box with a piece of Shaganappy (raw-hide), stretched across it like a drum-head. This is pounded with a sort of drum-stick, resembling that used on a bass drum, and it sends forth a most mournful sound.- You can imagine what a din there was with the voices of about one hundred braves howling, crying, sing- ing, screeching and shouting the blood- curdling war cry of the Red man as they marched around. Every brave was armed with a war club (one of which I have in my posession), toma- hawk, knife, etc, and was going through the most extraordinary antics imaginable. One brave would seize another by the hair and pretend to 'Others were throwing knives at the image of a man, made of plaited rushes, which stood in the centre of the howling Indians. I saw over fifty knives thrown at this object and not one missed its goal, After a while the braves quieted down and recovered their knives, and the poor! straw-man fell down, simply carved to pieces. 'My friend knew several of the chiefs so we were invited into their lodge where we were made welcome and offered a seat (on the ground) beside old "Yellow Quill", the great chief of the tribe. Some * of the "chiefs were not inclined to be friendly and looked on us as' intruders, until we told "Yellow Quill" to treat all: hands to the lemonade we had brought. * This went like magic. One old fellow came close to me and whispered, "No Skidawaboo?" (whis- key). I answered, "Not this time," so he immediately got up and said something to two or three others and they soon lost interest in us. = We be. a smoke out of the "Pipe of Peace", belonging fo old Yellow Quill and was it a smoke? The pipe must have been at least one hundred years old, made of clay or some sort of cement and filled with "kinnikinick" (inside bark of red willow or Sumac leaves) and was it hot? The next thing we saw was the Sun Dance. This dance is held by some tribes every five years. The Indians I am speaking of were Crees, out- lawed by all the other tribes ever since the Minnesota Massacre, where the Sioux distinguished themselves by killing all the white men, women and children and committing the most awful crimes. Our host sent one of the young braves of the tribe with us to guide us to the place where the dance was going on. On arriving there we saw two poles 'was called the "Tree of Life". Long ropes made of twisted willows were stretched from the poles to the tree and from these cables short strings were suspended. -At the end of each string hung a hoop, about three feet in diameter, and in front of each hoop an Indian wads dancing up and down and watching the sun all the time through the hoop. This must be kept up for three days, by every Indian and Squaw. If, on the second or third day, it rains, the dance is postponed and one old tree standing, The tree | Sun and Brave Dance of the Crees = By J. C. Cockburn, Port Perry until the sun shines again, then they start in again where they left off. It is a very strange thing but the sun nearly always shines for the whole three days, unless there is a renegrade in the tribe; then the sun will be hid- den until the witch doctor or medicine man discovers the culprit and he is driven out and not allowed in again until another Sun Dance is about to take place. However, this seldom happens. We were surprised to see the old women dancing as well as the young ones. The men were all naked, with the exception of a loin cloth, and were painted up in the most wonderful de- signs, One man in particular was painted a bright green all over, with black stripes, like a zebra, He had a whistle in his mouth and blew it all the time he was dancing. While I was watching the antics of this man, my friend exclaimed ex- citedly "Look over there 'at that Squaw, that is Big Mary who used to live in the Village of High Bluff. She was brought up by a white family who took her when she was a little girl, just after the Minnesota Massacre. She was supposed to be a Christian and everyone thought she was all right, but unknown to her friends she married the son of an Indian Chief. That fellow painted like a zebra is her son, Blind Charlie they call him as he is blind in one eye." : "lI must report this when we g back to the Portage. there will be trouble, but that is the way with this tribe. They will make the white people believe they are con- verted as long as they can pull their legs for provisions, clothing, ete., then some time when they expect they are going to pass on they will join their tribe again and go through the Sun Dance. They are not taking any chances of not being with their own people in. the 'Happy:.. Hunting Grounds', : I wanted to see the "Dance of the Braves" so we were taken to the next lodge where it was going on and there we saw some disgusting sights. A pole was stuck in the ground with notches cut in it, and another pole on the far side with a long string dangling from it, made of raw-hide. A young Indian showed his bravery in the following way: (as there were no more opportunities for scalping this plan was now used), the medicine man took a skewer (very much like a butcher's skewer) and stuck it through the flesh of the right breast of the brave," and fastened it to the string of raw-hide, then the' brave walked backwards and tried to see how far he could pull the outside pole down. The pole fitted into the notches and the brave who pulled it down the farthest won the prize which entitled him to one spot of red paint just under the left eye on the cheek. I saw several young braves with as many as seven or eight of these spots in different colors and they seemed very proud of them. They didn't all stand up under the strain and I saw two boys about sixteen pull and try until the skin was streched out from two to three inches and the blood was streaming down their. breasts and then faint away. This threw them out of the game until the next Sun Dance. We saw one brave with a skewer through the sinews of his back drag a pony out of a tepee, much against the animals will. This act gained hinr a spot of green paint on each side of the red spot. By this time we had seen all the torture we wanted and after Saying fare-well to old Yellow Quill we started on our way back to Portage. - Before we left however, we took one more look at Big Mary. She was just moving up and down, nearly all in and her ankles were the size of a three quart pail. . Her white friends got an orde from a judge to go and bring her back but when they got there she was dead. They took her body away and buried it in a cemetery, but the next day the grave was empty and no trace was ever found of her. inp msn The last month has seen over 33,000 men added to the payrolls of Canadian industries. This is just an- other indication of the improved trend of business in Canada. 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