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TH CANADIAN BANK F CO_M_MERCE {Ry Canadian` Bank of Commerce extends to Fanners every or the `transaction oftheir banking "business, including- tint and collection of Sales notes. Blank sales notes lied free of charge on application." ` V S25 L. s15.nnu.nnu RESERVE ruun, $13,500,000 FARMERS? B~Us1NEs&s `IR C.V.0nLVL..D-. D.C-Id- p;PVtBIident. 1LAIRD. v_ JOHN AIRD. AlI t MIIIIIGI BARRIE BRANCH % . H. J. Gust 1'1`. Managat. C'.P.R. Will Pay $2,500 Instead of % $353,750. % F ' The suit pf W. ._W. ,Carter_ for v$358,750"~"a`ga`ir;s;t the Q.P.R.,_ vyhich. had -been Occupying` the`. a`tt,enf-ti o`n # bf the` courts at 1`O_r0neto_,fo r. a Touplej` M days was settlqtd ; 1VafstL.`1`h1_1rsd'ay,~* ._t_h-es; plainti ajggreeingf` tsqf take~-;$2;50@,;T ? %Lech `F ' :APy1.~`its"GWn09t9e' V ':~fl11.~..";I..;;. --"....=_'. a_1;:;...`_'..'|:..`: .._~__~..- 1-;_- vuva `:50; II`, IIU l|$' UW-ll UU3D5p . ;-;..TheA `damages T 'claimed;.f- 'w_e_1j9 `for, the destruction of `same [timb:e`r- lim-J in ,Si;noof"_Qai1nLty. ..plwgji::3g wauunuuuua .l1'UUn '_ -o15aoy.Druggists. % Price 75 per bottle. - . ~Take Ha:ll"s Fayiily-`Pins `for 'c_:1- stipation. nun--vvo 15.): V ' ` " `A community does not have to be vary large before it .reqi1ii`as gim- p1`.0v~<=d Isanitation.-. It neads sew _aj;1d"health regulations which `Jon y` ' ix"-municipality can prosfide.-,. -A_t.t`he `gf time` it mpst have. a_n- am"p " we r. Lsqpply; :ve7_tim_6 L_ when ` prifvate qapital _> DAMAGE` AC`-TI-ON Is" .sL~1%TL;I-3133 -1.1 4-: U0 \.I:uuuu_y u. UV. LUIUUU, \J-pl contains `no mercury and is taken internally, acting directly upon thxel blood and mucous surfaces _of--the system. In tbuying Ha,ll?s__ Catarrh Cure be sure you '-get the ge`nuine.f It is 'ttken_ internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, `by, F. J;'.7`}Cheney & Co. Testir1xr1\onials_. Jfree._;_ T can I A n__. . . , BEWARE, - OF. OINTMENTS. ! THAT -CONTAIN MERCURY. L as mercury will surely destroy the {sense of smell and: ..00IIiD1`te15_{ de- _ range the". whole. system when enter- ing it thvroug-h the mucous surfaces. `Such articles should: never be used except on pnescriptionsrl-'fro_1n re- lputalble physicians, as. the damage they will ,do is tenfold, to 4tl1e good 'you can -possibly derive -_fAro1nt-hem. lI`Iall;s ,9atarrh Cure, ,manufa_ctured 'n1.....'...__ 9. n- 'm-1`;-J:~-r`\ }`~AuIoD_\Jctvu&Au \Ju1C, suauuxuuuurcu by F. J.` Cheney & 00., 'Toledo,"O., . - . r.nI'\-nvnn G\a\ n~.A..-.-..-- __'.J 3... L-I_-_. i It would appear, however, that our hopes and those of all lovers of the ' game fish of Lake Simcoe are doom- `ed to disapptoin-tment in this cone "nection, for the preditory ecarp has again appeared in great enumibers on the eastern shereaof the lake.` f `I'..-;. __...`l L`. ' vuu puauusu ouulc U1 hut? H1186. , mLast vqeek the harbor of` Beaver? ton: was alive with'the pe$t-`--some of them being of prddi.gious size. .J Vast Numbers ` are Now ' Moving 1 Along `East Side of Lake Simco-e T Beaverton Express --A -few weeks ago, on the au'thorityof many sh- ermen, we gave out the statement` that carp W6I`8*paSSil1g` from the waters of; Lake Simcoe; very few having been seen or caught for `several months. lThe method of incorporating ai town is provided by law. -It is a, legal procedure and should `be con- `ducted by a lawyer. It is quite a 'techn%ica-1 -proceeding and the re- quirements of the law Ashould `be carefully dbserved, as errors `some- times produce serious consequences. The lawyer selected to conduct the proceedings should be. one who `has had previous experience. cT-he law requires` a mullicipality to have at least ve hundred inihabitants- , -The cost is not material.` If you need a square'meal you go and get it and pa'y"'the price, otherwise you `starve. The same rule _obtains in respect to the requirements of a community._ If it needs something it is because its very being depends upon that need being satised. It must obtain ..it, otherwise it will `lose its power to grow, -and deter- ioration will result. This -`is an -in- exorafble lawof nature. There are many other commun- ity 'needs,. ` such as a, re depart-. ment, pwblic library. some -measure of police p'rotect'ion,_ perhaps some means of recreation like a `park or play-ground, and possibly a pusbl-i-c A meeting place such as a town hall. '.l`hese- things can be secured only through the instrumentality of a municipal corporation.` And` if al community aspires to future grow-' th, if it is ambitious to be a,- factor in promoting civilization, it must` satisfy these community needs. The earlier it commences to do so the more rapidly will -it grow; _ cost .._ ..__.:l ._-L I1l'\!\4J n n A u u n an luau.-.4-.1 -.--_ `-5531 1 W . `Thenefore it is to-secure commuriv-,1 ity necessities at an equality of cost that municipalities zfre organized as political bodies. They ' are. , vested by law with .the power to do the things that the community. d`esire's to` have done, and tei distribute, the equitably over the entire com- fmunity 'by the power of `taxation. Ne other form `of government` can serve them so ; complete.ly_ " or s?a'~tis-'. ' "h jaetorily.` * lLl\VU\vv\1Iid:`- ;!VQAA(n`..AL `.7.'_.; L- '1 Q` CARP IN EViDEN-CE AGAIN i '!There `is `a. great satisfaction in having a town I-ook'*at'tr`aotive, with. neatly kept streets,` bordered with ornamental trees, owers or grass. besides, it is a great factor toward. enhacing the value of real property, for the reason that other people will want to make their residences` in such a town, and consequen-tly' there will be a demand for home sites. ` 2 Hon.` W. J. "Hanna has issued regulations for industrial farms `to ' superspde county jails. Among the onces which make . a person lig ieble for the industrial faifgns, one section ) declares that any` frerson convicted` of being found drunk or in _:;iZ1iu;1)l`ic place - within imonthi ja`f_.te'r* "a; prior '- c'o"n"vice "tipn__ for; gt; .,l;=l j o[ifen,oe.> may : i ` to any n.Viii1 _i81T auvvuqg WC-PU U116 ?l'Bpl'B3el1UatlVeS: . Meaford--`Bros. F. H. J eery, E. E. Long, H .Musgrove, H. Haw- kins. . . - 'I`hoVrn'bury-~Bro. W. Mitchell. I ` Co1 1inIg"'wood-Bros. H. Shaw, W. H.` I-Iawkes, J Q H." Raines, Jno.. Adams and` S. Morrison. i~Barrio_e---Bi~'6s. H.` G. Robertson, `-J`. Kilvington, C.` Andrews and Chas. Jones. . . ` Al1iston--:Br0s.f . Wm. Lockhart and `Wm; Knight. ' V .q........... 1'... n.'-u--x ODDFELLOWS DISTRICT 4 .. MEETING `` A W _ -Stayner Sun--,T'he: district meet- ing of' Georgian Bay Diet!"-ict No. 26, Ind-epende`nt Order of .Oddfel- lows, was '-held `in the Oddfellows Hall, Stayner, on` Monday last. - -Bi`o. H. -Shaw, - D.D.G.M., was in the chai-r_',.' Matters of import- ance V were discussed and a" ve1{y.i11- teresting ~:jme'eting was held.` Bro, 'Jno.- Lockhart of Al~lis_ton was elect- ed as the new D.D.G.-M. The .fol- lowing were the representatives: ` ` D-A- ' 1*` '1 1'". Ir- BLOCKADFr' LIFTED `After `being. blockaded for over two Weeks t11_ro1vgh the sinking of. a bridge at Baxter Station, the main line of` the Can'adi'ai1 Pacic Rail- way to .the North was opened last '1`=hursday night,._ when the Winni- peg Expims "passed over the form- er`1fun. During the interval all trains were detoured. -orver the Port _McN_i~co11 line. -- ' Ahstsvutrhin-g `that the cbn:dfitions be- tween now and harvest -will be equal `to the average of the past four years, 1910-1913, the above percentages represent the- -promise of ,' yields equal to the four year, average in the case of spring wheat, rye and barley, and inferior in the case of oats tby 1 per cent., and in the case `of fall wheg-t -by 2 per cent. uauanguu .n,u.Lu,uuU GUI CO -On June 1st the condition of' eld crops, as measured by a stand- ard in which 100 represents the promise ' of a` full crop `was. - very favourable. The points are `as fol- low: fall wheat 79, spring wheat 93, all wheat 91, oats a11d`bi1rlg,_ii92, `rye 89, peas 92, mixed g1j$i11sz93, hay and clover 90, aI_fa1fa"88 -and pastures. 90. ` , l `In the three Northwest Pr0vinceS,l Manitoba, .Saskatchewan and Al-! berta, the total wheat area is esti-' mated at 10,247,400 acres, as com-' pared with 10,036,000`acres in 1913; lthat of oats at 6,086,000 acres, as "compared with 5,792,000 acres in. D1913; that of barley at-1,041,000, - as compared -with 1,025,000 acres in l1913 These Idjierences represent increases of 211,400 acres of Wheat, 294,000 acres for oats v and 16,000 acres for Ibarley; `or a total increase of 521,400 acres for the three crops as compared with 1913. T-he wheat area in Manitoba. is somewhat less than -last year, viz.: 2,788,000 acres as compared with . 2,804,000 acres in 1913. In Saskatchewan the area under'.wheat is 5,848,300 acres as compared with 5,720,000 acres, and in Alberta it -is 1,611,100 acres agai11st 1,512,000 acres. 2 sub ;uLA.y nuutuucu ' ` Let" us analyze these necessities.` -T-he rst need of a comrnunity is a highway, .a means by which one. inhalbitant may reach `another in-.4 uhalbitant. Two families may re-V _county supply those needs? The it soon develops that con'tri'bu-tions I quire a connectin.'g: pathway -only, whereas one hun_dred families will; need a street system. Then follows another question: Is our street sys-` tern `maintained as we want it? That i-s to say, are the streets pro- perly graded, drained`, paved, ' sprinkled, and lighted at night, and are there proper sidewalks and. crosswa-lks? Are there trees` along" the streets? Do things commend themselves to our senses? If not-, then the inquiry is made-Who can do those things for us? Can the answer will be that the county is * organized for serving ' _a rural com- munity and not an urban` centre. If-you want thosethings you must l c 9 .5 get them. yourselves. In this situ- ation a_ trial p is often made to se- cure such. needs by _voluntary co- operation. This method 'i may be; ` partially successful for a time; but l for the public good are 1_1ot.equit= a_!blv.distri:b.ut`ed.' The pi1blic,spirit- ` ed` and generous will ` s contribute. ` [more than their share, while others _ equally. alble `will, give little or pnothf -.1: 9 . `VIII VI Illa nu 1111.15-llln I S_tay`ner-Ja.v Peattie. . 7- The totafaarea "unde'r- wheat in "Canada, is,` __~provision,_~a.I1y . estimated at 11,203,800_a.cres, or -188,800 acres more'than in 1913. _The` area. under spring wheat is reported as 10,230,- .500, acres, or 185,500` acres more tha-n in 1913, and the area expect- `ed`- to `be hvarvesteyd . of. fall wheat is 973,300 acres or _3,300,acres more than last year. Thetacreage of oats is uplaoedat 10,811,000 acres? as com- pared with 10,434,000 acres last year, an increase of 377,000 acres. Barley occupied` 1,604,000 acres, or 9,000 acres less` than -last year, and~ rye 111,070 acres, as compared with 119,300 0. acres last year. The esti- ma'_ted= area under hay and clover is 8,206,000 acres,-as compared with 8,169,000 acres in 1913. Tbu_lletin" [issued to~day.~'.`b the Cen- "s'u38i.fatnd, Statistics Oee ;pre1i_m;inary sown I to . the principal", `grain; ierops in `Canada, `as wel1=as.. reports on ` their condition ~accord`ing to, ref vturns_ made [by crop-reportinsg cor- respondents on June 1. The reports show that throughout the Maritime "Provinces -seeding Was! delayed through A the -lateness . of the spring.` In- Ontario -a,n'd' Quebec the condi- tion of grain is generdlzly satisfac- tory; notwiths-tandi`-ng a long spell `however the meadows were. begin- ning,-to suffer. from the effects `of tlrouth. Conditions throughout` the west were reported as generally favouralhle, `though rains would be `and? Southern Alberta estimaltes are fgiven ' ` of -`the areas of dry weather'`;*` in` many places. welcome, especially` in Manitoba. INDUSTRIAL FA_RM-S: onqns Goon NORTRELRN. ADVAA-NCE [AU I As the fashions are to-diaj a wo- man would have to design nearly -everything for herself if. she would not wear" immoral clothes. The rea- son is plain enough. Fashions, es- pecially French fashions, , are not `designed for good women. They will not spend ietioughl money to suit the merchants. .- That is other reason that `every new fashion is designed originally for. the id-emit-' zmonde of `Pai-is.` It isilan. unulegss, ant [thought that it is; the` latter -who set i the '-standa-ix} which oi'1r_" ifaswonwbleswomeno f11W 4? 1= aa&ity.? -to _; T 1.: _ ~\ Ialltlavwavwul v\.' IA\l\.Il\JLL\a\'. Whether clothes were rst. worn as an ornamental covering or for protection matters .little, for we "seem even- to this day to -consider the first of prime` importance, , she said. No matter if the neck be exposed nearly to the waist line and the limbs nearly half way to the knees, if only, the style he followed, :health and suggesti-veness are lost sight of in the craze to-`be in fash- ionu _ I .1 A In - I"ashio11s -of Paris Not Designed for pGood Women. `Chicago, June 7 11.-No one thing to-day in Va '\\'roman s life -more saps her strength, time, means `V and nervous vitality than the triple- `headed lion that guards -every event of daily life in the -form of -the question, `What shall I wear? `How shall it "be made? and `How shall` `it be paid` for? ` -- The following of such dictation causes` foolish women to eat their. hearts out with longi-ngs they can- not aord to gratify; leads, to 1111-_ happiness, the ruination` of homes, and the `barterinug of virtue itself. . So declared Mrs. Robert J. Bur- Ibiennial convention of the Crieral `Federation of A Women s Clufbs here. VII..- `I)-__.J-A.L- L dettey`i%- Pasadena, Ca'l., beforethe V v\1_uu 11189 _ fl. .;. uuvsuvnynn V1. 1! Uulbll D \JLl|`UU .llCL Uo I Mrs.` Burdette in discussing mod- .ern dres spoke to an expert and lappreciatlve audience. ` ll`?-71, J14 ,,, `I 1`. , n 3ARE* `OF AGED; `DRESS WOMAN S WORST _FOE .-..,. ..., ... .- _,....-. . Teachingt these children to pro- perly clothe the babies instead of clapping anything` at all on them and the giving them fresh air in- stead` of harlbarically shutting th-em up in a room was emphasized a-s one of the strong points of the system." There are 24 classes atipresent, the children taking a great interest in them. About 30 or 40 members at- ltend each class. V V vs.-.1 The result may not show so well right now, said.Dr. Struathers; although even_ now we have many instances of direct_benet, but they wil-1 certainly have their veect when -these children become mothers in, ;say. 10 or 12 years. n1L...-L:__._ 41.--- A1-:1J-,_, L, ` rT-he little mothers classes were ethought to be accomplishing some- thing toward the proper education o_f mothers, as well as their daugh- ters. ~||IatIAlIAl-IFIL us I `V. I Mil-k turning sour, and, im-i proper feeding resulting in de- creased vitality, are the causes which -bring it albout. Mothers who have no training in this respect do not know how to treat their child- ren. Some of them think babies should have everything they want to eat. It is a wonder so many children su-rvive infancy when the! methods of their bringing up are so haphazard. ""1. - 'I_'LA.1 _ -_L1,-,,, 1,,,,, \4\lJl\JIK7VCI`5 `J1 L05` -Indigestion is infant` mortality says the doc.to}'. ` ll'll'31I . Infants Killed . o by Ignorance, . Says Dr. 'Stru_thers. . I It is no wonder that the infant; death rate is high when so many parents refuse to take a doctor's ad-, vice, says = Dr. W. E. Strut-hers,l chief medical inspector` of Schools, says The Toronto Telegram. ` `.T-here. is nothing harder to con- trol than the feeding of a .ba1by, states the doctor. Mothers will do things that they are emphatically told not to do the instant the doc- or is out of their sight. . It was stated that the grandmother s ad- vice is often taken before that of a doctor; when it in fact consists of ~1egendary traditions and foke , lore. A case was quoted of as child with indigestion which was seen- by `a physician, was being treated with a sure cure of the grandmother s consisting of raw potatoes. ` ~Indi_gestion isthe chief cause of . ;infant in the hot weather,` nnvvn thus ;Jn..L;... . Jug. luuuxuxm: _ Q3!-Pal-l V`W-11"`!-Q:-at i ` (3)Ii To per`m'ti the? earnings of lfeaw . farm to be applied jtows'trds`hi_s own zperson 's.enten"eed to ; an iiiidutril. -maintenance,~ the maintenance rof his wife, thiswehildren, or` other mem- bers of his family dependent ' upon him, and to pay "the travelling ex- penses of a person to . any place where employment has been `secured for such person on his parole 01' discharge. The . idea behind the management -of industrial farms is not to provide the inmates with a picnic `time, and for > this reason order and discipline-A must. be en- forced. To assure that every ' per- son is kept properly` employed, a daily record is to` `be kept of Work performed by each inmate. A "plain diet is to be provided. T-he ris- ing hour is 5.30 and -the day closes `at 8.30 in the evening. V- rv--.vuu uuv, uuvu. `J. a UUIM`. munity desires such advantages,_ the thing to do is to incorporate. It is a well-knorwn fact that -the bringing together of a number of; people in the form of a social `body begets certain n-ecessities which are pe_cu1ia.r to that very circumstance. nhn vnon rlnrxw A4. ...-....--1..- _ -.---- mlaiie V fbr` " jail I mainfilane by in-g industrial farms` self-sustaining. /n\ 71"- ..........-..'4- 4-1. our-n`:n'rQ (VF Q W_ON T' TAKE ADVI-CE. - ---.. 4:- ;/o .149 .LlL\I.lJvv\.I., UUUQUDU iour aged: ministers do not come for benevolence, but for simple justice. I do not think that God will bless la church that neglects - to provide suered is that men have gone away? from us in their early prime, only to `return at old" age. to die on our hands, V saidvRev. Dr. Camplbelli, of Montreal, speaking in the Presby- terian Assemlb15r of the ease of an elderly minister who had made ap- plication to be put on the aged and inlrm ministers _ fund. Fsaid ma ;s. :[;1'md"",:"b;;;`.;`;e It is not 9. `berievolent fund, 1\` 1\ is -.-v- u . Letting the Light in , _` V--. vv ovIoQnIlCtl5ICIUJ I Those people. who ask the ques- tion -are_usua1ly those who are in- clined to measure any advantage that might be gained in dollars and: cents and then offset such gain by the dollars and cents they would; have to .pay as municipal, taxes. ' It is impossible` to measure the advantages of incorporation in the terms _of nance, just as it is im- possible to measure the cost of maintaining schools by the value that education` confers `upon the human race. It is not a `matterv for comparison; the advantages can only be pointed out, then if a com-. advantages, the incorporate.` ._ A ___-'I'I l-,, , , I` - Shop Where You Are Invited To Shop SPECIALS IN hi "Advertising will go far towards ro- tining the loyalty of old. (`ustm11c1`~' and winning you new ones. Fift_v~ -two advertismelxts in our ('0lunm~` will prove an" excellent salesman-- c-ne- whoso yearly cost to you will '00 `less than `half what you are now to some "salesman behind your counter. V designs in Wall` Special discount of` T ` cent._ for cash. We commend to the` n1erchan1t.< of `this community th-e ad.vautasges and good `results of persistent ad\'e1'ti.~'- ing in our columns, for the public alwaysrgoes where light is_-thn public shuns dark places. Ligzht. means welcome and con"dence. -.,-..-vu-J nuuvvo bllllb lb Ix` lll 11.; Ways` good lt_o let much light intr dwellings,` factoria, shops and stables--i_nto all places where life `is and where health and 'eiciem-,v are desired. Shops} and -businesses that are if- lumined by advertising have vitality and efficiency not -1x)sse ed by shops and businesses that drape their service and a(~tiviti._-< with a pall of silence.` I '(-By H. A. Mason, in Piaiciei ` `Mun-icipalities.)v 0 [ _ The question is frequently asked: of what- advantage is it to _the people of a` small town having a population of froxii 500 to 1,000 to incorporate as a municipality? 7`I\L ____ ,-_.,'I, 1` I A` EV9i'5 ib0dY knows tha *nvo.~.` ....-.._xJ L- `I , . 1 every way.---Lom ASKING PAP.\.--1fI14 STYLE -Sui1_:or--In askixxg you to consent to my engagement with your daugh- ter,` I am glad to .~`_V that they; gentlemen, eminent pmfo.<.-or; of eugenics, support my upplioationin ` Ion Opinion. _-_------_, DU um. 1u\l u1u[,t1]( oes not take proper mu-9 ministers when thew are to. take cam of t.110111~e1vo`~"." . `~r~\* ffor the old age of its ministm lone of the tllim.--.< which 1; fyoung men out of the Presbyterj ministry is the fact that. t} }does 0- rministers t %take t.}1c-1n~n1m;" THURSDAY, [it is in :1: in y - apers \--.-_.....-......... ........ ..... ... .. .. ,.` THE` AD ANTAGES or IN; the eo11'sequent improvement of the CSORPORAT10N '_[`.() SMALL` town generally. ' -. `V . . ' TOWNS '!T`here 116171111: 0 fninim `r\rJp"nI-V`-innnl-:cun u--:6-In are sup 4 mat, the di