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a. iLL ~~ OAKVILLE, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,1931. $2.00-& year; $3:00;-2 years; i-advance- EVOL. XXXII. No. 42.” Become too Great Town, Township and County ,°line tax might be enough. The county council is to be com- Road Taxes must be mended for its stand in regard to the cost of the middle highway, not } that the road is not needed and need- With Trafalgar farms renting for'ed at once, but that the cost may be less than taxes, and town taxation placed where it belongs. The road up to the limit of the property own-/tax system is obsolete. It should be ers, ability to pay, it is time to call remodelled now. Whalt to road expenditures until some | D fairét basis of taxation is put in POSTPONED MEETING | ____ foree. ; i he whole community would like to! OF S.S. No. 12 } EE hy an i i a postponed meeting of the rate- E "| payers 5.8. - 12, to furth E and it is needed, but the taxpayers| caer the ‘f red ae Hares fr have come to the limit of their abil-! ieee Scab lenge for the rapidly increasing attendance at the ninth line school, was held on ity to pay for the convenience and amusement of Toronto, * Tuesday night. and Tourist motorists who use the Trustee E. L. Wilson was elected highways. chairman and secretary tre&surer, The congestion on the present) pelford Savage took the minutes. highways is caused by inter-city and tourist traffic. It is imperative that it should be releived but the people who shuold pay for the relief are those who use the highways and not Plans for a two roomed school to be built on the present site, were submitted, the estimated cost bake $18,000. After considerable discus- sion as to the respective merits of | 1000 CARS AN HOUR Arthur Hillmer jr., Cyrus Cook and Ben Walsh have been taking a cen- sus of the highway traffic duyng the past weck and report that tie high point was reached Monday afternoon between four and six o'cloc’ - when 1,000 cars an hour passed — given point on Colborne street. ff). SUBWAY PROGRESSING Reeve W. H. Mordet, Trafalgar, Mayor John B. Moat, Reeve W. N. Robinson, Oakville, and Reeve George Cleave, Esquesing, the committe ap- pointed at the last meeting of the county council,to purchase the land necessary for connecting the 6th and 7th lines to’take care of the traffic when the subway is constructed hind the 6th line crossing closed, were authorized to offer the sum of $3,500. This was the amount fixed by the county, the municipalities of Oakville and Trafalear and the C.N.R- com- pany. The committee waited on Mrs. Cross, Friday. time to consider the offer. THROUGH OAKVILLE Mrs. Cross asked for t Ww. A. DEANE PASSES, PROMINENT MASON The sutilen and unexpected death of W. A. Deane, which. occurred at his residence, Kerr street, early Mon- ‘ day ,morning, removes one of. Oak- Contrary to expectation, the pro- ville’s “respected citizens. posed fence at Brantwood school was While ” Beane had not been in: brought up again at the meeting of robust health for some ‘time, he had. the Board of Education on Tuesday is ‘usual until a few days’ night and was responsible for another a shock to his many friends. _ troduced by Goldwin Thornton who The decersed was born in Dundas “#5 2°t present at the previous meet- May 16h, 1862. He was. educated! in#s when the matter was up for con- at the Grammar school and at an. “eration. He moved that the fence early age, was apprenticed as a black: | be built without further delay. Wm. smith. After learning his trade, he? Busby who seconded the resolution moved to Buffalo, later going to Syr-| aeain expressed his conviction of its y necessity for a safe-guard to. the ucuse and Savannah, Georgia. ‘ In 1892 he returned to his native | Small children attending that school . country And started a blacksmith bus-| He told of a ee of peepee — incss on what is now the Dundas! *° Bronte, Burlington and Nelson Ba highway nenr the town line. In 1908 | lage where he found that the shot he bought 2 tract of land west of) Baonnie bas sublet ci three sides Kerr street, which he designated the| and RCN Se ear nes “Glendoveer Survey", sub-dividing it) W. RB. Shipley again voiced his into lots. This district includes Her-| objection on the ground of unneces- ald, MeDonald and Deane avenues. poe expenditure in a year when Mr. Deane was one of the most economy is the watchword of the active members of the Masonic order board. If the children’s lives were jin this district, having advanced to, endangered, he would withdraw his 82nd degree. In recognition of| objection. If the matter came up an- as he Avas made a life mem-! other year, he would prefer an orn- | his § ago-and Ris sudden passing came. as lively session. The quéstion was in-} ‘those who happen to live in the vic- inity of them. It is true that the cost of roails is shared between the province the county and the municipalities and the two plans,—the erection of the two roomed school or dividing the section and building a new school on the west side near the Oakville town limits, it was decided to submit a It is understood that the work of ber of the Oakville proceeded with at an early date. j Star, also of the Shriners of Savan- t Masonic lodge,’ amental fence or a hedge. opening up this new street is to be the Royal Arch Masons and Eastern’ A. E. Ryan, secretary of the board who spoke as a rate-payer living on that the municipalities pay only 20 per cent of the total cost. But it is also true that this 20 per cent of the cost of building permanent roads is more than the propetry owners of the municipalities can bear, and more ‘than their use of the roads justifies. questionaire to the rate-payers to get an expression of opinion. If the latter method is decided on, it will necessitate a petition from the rate-payers on the west side, for separation and constitution into a new section. It is argued that the value of 0. : farms is increased by the building of FARM PRODUCE PAYS provincial highways. The value may FOR SUBSCRIPTION be increased and this may be an ad- Every farm and town home is in- = ftheges late’y jterested in the pressing problem. 6f earning power of farms is Hittle/the Gi. These are eines vigor- » if at all, by highways, and ouely and fully in the editorial .and "it is out of the earning power that! news columns of the Oakville Record. __ taxes must be paid. {In order that more homes may avail If the cost of operating a farm is themselves of this news! service, we so increased by highway costs that have decided to accept farm produce the revenue of the farm does not/or its equivalent in cash for sub- meet expelises and taxes what advan-* serintions, : tage is the increased value of the _The purchasing power of farm pro- farm to the farmer who wants to ducts has shrunk to such extremely keep his home and earn his living Jow levels that the Oakville Record from his land? Even “though he feels that it. should participate with might sell it, in good times, he would the farmer {n his loss. - have to move off the farm to realize | We will accept two bushels of no. the extra value due to highways. In 1 quality wheat delivered at the of- times like the present farms cannot fice of the Oakville Record or their be sold at anything like their real equivalent in cash at the current mar- walue and they cannot be rented for ket price for one vear's subscription. the amount of taxes which to a great Wheat has the same nutritive val- extent, are due to road costs. jue as it has always had. The Oak- In Trafalgar at the present time ville Record - is steadily there are several roads on which the its constructive force in the district, ___ second debentures have been issued 50 we believe that this exchange of - before the first are paid off: Wher good wheat fora good newspaper “the rodd scheme was introduced the | will he of decided advantage to our late Dr. Anson Buck, then Reeve of, readers. - Trafalgar, warned the farmers that} This offer holds good for the dur- “some day your taxes will be $2.00 , ation of the interesting contest, de- an acre”. He was lau to scorn. jtails of which are given on page 7. Now the taxpayers would welcome an Wi tse ccam ere opportunity to get back to the $2.00 MR. COOK TAKES OVER aan acre many then thought was rid- RED INDIAN STATION iculous. a Ontario must have good roads and| Filled with optimism regarding the Many more must be built, but the future, particularly in connection time has come for a showdown on/with Oakville, Tom Cook took over who is to pay for them and how the duties of manager of the branch ‘much. station of the MeColl-Frontenac Oil The railroads have been hurt by the ;Co. on Colborne street, Monday after- competition of trucks and every Can- noon. 4 adian is paying for the loss in huge|~ While he wae born in Toronto, Mr. _Tailway deficits. The smaller mun-|Cook, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. icipalities have come to the end of Malcolm Sinclair, of the Malcolm Sin. their tether in road costs, and the clair Co. Ltd., has looked forward to high gasoline tax is not being dis- the time when he might locate here. tributed over all of the roads but is It is expected htat very shortly he will spent on the through highways. _ybe knowh as “Tom” throughout the The time has come for roads to pay town. ape : their own way through a gasoline tax| “Right now we are going through sufficient to build and maintain every very strenuous times in the world”, road in the province and many of the he said to the Record, “and Oakville through streets in towns and cities. isn't escaping the depression alto- Property camnct continue to bear the gether. Don't let us fly our flag at |, ost of transportation any longer. half mast, keep it right on top where ; A gasoline tax high enough to main- it Belongs. tain roads, and spent directly on “We ehouldn’t lose confidence in roails, would place the cost where it each other. We shouldn't find fault rightly belongs ari rectify manv of with ourselves. This is our country the taxation inerualities which exist and Oakville is our town and we between municipalities, counties and. should prove ourselves to be real good provinces, between trucks and rail- citizens. We should be ready to as- ~ Ways, and plate a needed cheek on sist und cooperate with each other at highway expenditures. The govern- all times, work together and there ment would not hove so ¢nany de- will he no question as to the out- mands for unnecessary expenditures come.” ; if the taxpayers paid more directly! Clifford Penman, the Oakville lai for tke highways. The cost wou'd , who has been assisting at the station. perhips be less. °The present eas- jis remaining in the samé capacity. » -~ increasing | © W. T. MERRY CUP *The annual five mile bicycle race of the High school drew out-jan en- thusiastic group oF eaice with their own iron steeds. Over thirty boys lined up in three rows in front of Davis and Doty'’s lumber yard and set out for the hard grind. They streaked up the 7th line to the upper middle road. Gradually thinning out they peddaled* over to the -@th-tine, down to the north side of the rail- roas tracks and finished up in front of the King Construction Co. Barker wasofirst for the second consecutive year and gains permanent possession of the W. T. Merry cup. Hopkins Was second with Squires third. Hop- kins and Squires apparently believe in keeping the prizes in the family. HOCKEY oO. nah, Georgia, where he held hi “m- oa * she ae en i Douglas avenue, protested on behalf eves BARKER WINS During the Shriner convention in, Of himself and other rate-payers in : fthat district, claiming that when Toronto a year ago last June, he hos- 5 s pitably entertanied at his home, mem- tad en baa bers of his lodge from Savannah and eS erne WAR A TS wis presented ih a with a teeing stricted residential area and that the cup as at mark of esteem and in ap-| gearce tte <broversy. Soymmuiee Was preciation. of his devotion to the’ Planning to build would df@ract from endeks | tbe value of the property. He prais- He was an official member of Knox’ ©¢ the feachers of Brantwood school Presbyterian church. ‘for their oversight of the chidren and In 1890, he married Annie Ruddel},|for cautioning them, to always “stop who died three years ago. look and listen” ~before crossing the Surv ae ire two daughters, Mrs. streets. ; He that other- rate- E. 1 Jade Washington BCs Miss Frateis at home, and a son W. ‘Fence Again Discussed by Board of Education & = PUZZLE CONTEST - : IS ANNOUNCED $50.00 in cash is the first prize— (10 other valuable cash prizes are of- | fered readers of The Oakville Record. | In this issue, The Oakville Record jannounces the fifst of a series of in- {teresting puzzle contests, problems ithat have been designed to give the | utmost- in puzzle amusement to our ‘readers, and at the same time afford ; them an opportunity to increase their income. This contest closes Wednes- ‘day, November 4th, and on this day, ‘11 happy readers will receive cheques | for amouts ranging from $2.00 to 350.00. | In this contest it is necessary to find twenty mistakes in the puzzle Resehagealg shown in the announcement on page seven. In finding twenty } mistakes you qualify to compete in the second puzzle, which like the one announced today, is a picture puzzle, different from the first, but as simple jin principle. This second problem is jan absolutely NEW TYPE of picture \puzzle and is so interesting that our guess is, whole families will join in finding a sW#ution, and whether a prize is won or not, will consider the time well spent. There is nothing in either puzzle that cannot be done by any of our readers—you merely match your wits, your powers of observation, against those of your neighbors and other readers of:The Oakville Record. The entry conditions are very easy—one subseription payment only is required and this together with a correct ans- wer to the problem printed today, en- payers would” hi n present to join in the protest if it had been . Deane, New Toronto, two “sisters, known the matter was up for consid- Miss F. Deane, New York, and Mrs. | ¢Tation, and warned the hoard that! ; an injunction would be issued if the! G.- Wood, Owen Sound, also two ; brothers, Gideon, Rochester and| erection of the fence was isso George, Toronto. with. fe | There was a large assembly of! Op » division the vote wands font friends and neighbors to pay tribute|/-‘Thornton, Busby, Winzer; against—| of respect, at the funeral held Wed-! Shipley, Wilkinson, McBain. Canon neaday afternoon from his late res-| Smith and Mrs. Whitaker refrained. J. “I0E” RAYBOULD Forward Oakville , Intermediate O.H.A. Hockey Club Joe is a newcomer to our town having taken a position at McCleary's Imperial oil station, Colborne and Dundas streets. He hails fiom Walkerton where he has played all reached the intermediate finals in 1930 being beaten out by Paris. The following high tribute was giv- en Joe by the Walkerton Times upon his departure for Oakville:—“With the departure of Jre Raybould, Walkerton star centre on e ren- ior hockey squad that the has boasted for several years, one of the idols of hockey fandom in Bruce passes on to other fields, leavine be- hind him a_record for clean sport- manship and outstanding ability that will not soon be forgotten in this nerthern zone Joe could always be counted upon to take the ice in chip shape form and his poke check was the bane of opposing teams and the delight of the local fans.” ih his hockey with the intermediate team’ goal, booted his team to a hard earn- of that town. The Walkerton team ‘eq victory of 16 to 15, idence on Kerr street. _ Rev- J. from’ voting. The tie was broken by Porbes Wedderburn, minister of! the vote of Alfred Hillmer. who was | ‘nox church officiated. : | opposed. Mr. Hillmer was presid-| The” funeral was with Masonic | ing in the absence, on account of ill- ‘onors, members of the Oakville! ness of chairman D. H. Meikle. Lodge A.F. and A.M., and the loca! | | 1 Mant tussell | chapter R. A.M. conducting the Iast! On miption —of Canon Ps au el : 3 . |} Smith, the treasurer was instructed | rites. The many beautiful tributes, | x i : i ‘ to pay for the material that hail been, some of them from friends in Savan- x TEES : : ordered. This will either be disposed : nah, Georgia, brought their message of esteem and sympathy. , The pall-bearers were, A. G. Holmstead, J. R. Byers, J. E. Ford, W. B. Shipley, J. V. Markle, Roy MacGregor, Fred Daubney and S. H. of or kept in reserve. A communication was read regarii- | ing the teaching of piano music in the schools. The letter was referred to! the educational committee, that will! Albertson. report at the next metting. | Interment took place in St. Jude’s Mrs. Whitaker spoke of the advan- cemetery. tages of this method, making in-| | struction possible for some children | who would otherwise not be able to secure it. Principal R. H. Archibald report-, LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS GRIMSBY Tuesday afternoon saw the first battle of the rugby season when Grimsby and Oakville locked horns in Victoria park. Both teams received the wholehearted support of their rooters. r Oakville got away to a flying start and piled up a comfortable lead only to be overtaken and passed by Grim- sby in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. With two minutes to go Grimsby wus leading 15 to 18 when Macrae came to the rescue-of the Oakville stalwarts and with a splendid field of 283. side in Halton county and the remain- ing 20 outside. Permission granted’ Mr. Archibald books for the to the value of $2 R. F. Sanderson reported that all classes in the Central school were re- under the direction of Miss Skoog, musical supervisor. Miss Brown, principal of Brantwood school, who obtained a supervisor's certificate in art, was authorized to purchase supplies for teaching this subject, to the value of $40.00. Half of this amount will be returned to the board from the department. In committee of the whole, the fol- lowing accounts were passed and ord- The Oakville boys made some spec- tacular end runs, the forward pass- ing was good, a high percentage be- ing completed. Grimsby’s fumbles were snapped up art ‘it looks as though the team would go a lone way this year The Oakville line up was;—Snap-| ered paid;— back, Smuck; Quarter back, Ashbury;| faucational .......--.- $165.11 . Inside scrimmage, Davis and Mac- Proper’ : Mery SS ccve CenagaseN 51.55 ‘arl a : Ad oe re mkiga lig wine neigh eek veh Fire, water and light .... 29.76 son and Armstrong; Outside scrim- mage, Anderson and Marshall; Flying wings, Sutherland and Watts; Half backs, Macrae and Decker; Substi- tutes, Lehman, Chisholm, Bullied, Darlington, Pennycook and Sargent. The gnme was refereed by Dr. E. P. Soanes. An application, from Miss Ethel to be placed teachers. Health nurse was read. 3 | chances jhe bowls ed an enrollment at the High schoo!;® mice 342 game; ot i eS 165 stud. | next with 325; Jack Chapman had 319 ents were residents of Oakville, 98 re- | 29d Jimmie Steed 317. was! to “purchase! school library up ceiving regular instruction in music| Sh¥in, Clarkson, was received, asking on the list of supply The monthly report of the Public titles ‘compete for the eleven iz wwhich must be won by someone: ng the next three weeks. With the average person, the main reason for entering a contest is to win prizes. Regardless of this at- traction however, you find the puzzle | problem itself affords real delight and keen interest will be shown -by all who take part. Whether vou live in Oakville or the district around, your are equal in this contest. Children can do them as well as their parents—all will find it interesting, | fascinating and profitable, fi. FIVE PIN BOWLING Mayor Moat opened the league on | Wednesday night and bowled the first ball after making a neat speech. The teams were out in full force-and some rood scores were made. First hitb, triple, E, Maxwell, 838; second high triple, Jack Chapman, 753; third high triple, P. Allen, 709. E. Maxwell won the prize donated by W. R. Grammell for high triple; with the Die Hards. E. Maxwell also had the high single with A. E. Ryan was | Team Standing: Won Lost Points Lucky Strikes ..... ae A 1 3 Die"Hards ......... G44 2 | Chateau Gai (Wine) 2 1 2 iLes Canadiens 2 2 Invinenbles ....,. 1 2 2 | Oak. Hockey Team. 1 2 1 | This chap, P. Allen, of the Oakville Hockey team looks like a real bowler. fi. } i S.S. No. 18 WINS SHIELD THIRD YEAR Due to a clerical error in comput- ing oo of the County school fairs it™was erroneously reported last week that the Trafalgar Shield had been won by S.S. No. 16. A final check shows that the shield has been won for the 3rd consecutive vear by 8.5.--no.,..18, Miss Arline Miller, teacher giving them permanent pos- ession of this coveted trophy. An error also occured in the Horn- by results, the shield being won by 8.8. no. U.A-.E., Miss Nellie Jard- ime teacher.