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(By Mille) 1883â€"Last week reference was wade to the Kay Electric company, In May n special meeting was called and this company was prantec the right to «stablisi an electric . light vlant provided it was completed and in running ~6>* ¢ j July 12. Two more spetim ings were held in May to wis*> +* sgreement and sign a contract 5> four are and three inâ€" candescent Hgi:s. but a* the June meetins, all previous motions wers rescinded an zn application was reâ€" celved from W. F. Lewis while this again was withdrawn at a special meeiing held a week later. At this meettug the Ball Electric Co. ot Toâ€" ronto made â€" application . »d they made a deal by which the ccunell wae to pay $57 each per year fo. seven are lighi. and ©60 for three incanâ€" descent, lights to huen . from . dusk until twelve o‘ciock, at least 240 nights in the your, aaf the contract was for three yeare. But like a whols lot more of the deals Cria sby «wncil« heve mase at various times the compan, arparently was dilmory, and the fat bolled over. Months« »iterward the câ€"mpany whs notifled that if the lights wers not in working order by a certs‘s me they would he ordered to retaove their equipment los th4 company and councll fiddled #p the stroo! JAD after thet THIRTYâ€"EIGHTH YEAR REEVE REFUSES TO PUT M TION Troublsome Times When Counâ€" cil Tries to Get H.G. &. B. Squabble Cleared Upâ€"Original Bridge Over Creek At Eim vd thé eompany, and «omnel MURIUD long untll well into 1894 when W. â€" Lewis« took the plant over; and in he interim «the counell gave permis lon to the efsens to use the old of! treet lamps provided . they looked 6 Street Cost $16.90 nt GRIMSBY GROWN PEACHES ARB THE FINEST IN THE WORLD Last winter the unemployment situation in the large cities and even in the were out of work and forted to live from hand to mouth, mostly on charity handed o& The charity account of the town council was practically nil, even being lower than in not imProved to any great extent as regards employment during the spring and chanies, girls, boys and women are all working. _ All making good money. _ All m winter in the cities and towns of Canada does not look any too bright. In fact, ma; in Grimsby will be good. The people of the township and town will have plenty':% be plenty of work for the winter months. _ Last winter the building of the Arena ¢ gantic plant of the Growers‘ Ice & Cold Storage Co. kept dozens of hands at work. Lakeview avenue also kept a lot of men at work until the middle of Marcb‘;' All @ be a reason, or several reasons why Grimsby will be in good condition for the winter BECAUSEâ€"The township of North Grimsby has been and is buildi x 454 large waterâ€" works system in the eastern portion of the town'xip. ud which will be greatly enlarged if they build it through the Beach as â€" _ they will be requested to do by the residents therein. a 4 THE WEATHER _WHY GRIMSBY Is sO0 HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS PROBABILITIES _ LWI 'hfi‘.‘ rain in .w {Continued on page 6) the years when We T®ut TUM *. 1898 the board o# works that it bad bullt . bridge e creek on Eim street for That bridge stood for ® l'f‘ ars and the tax rate that : 18 mills. And even with rate the council was able to eward of $20 for the nabbing what would now be called * _ meny _ bundreds the Eio street overborating _ back when we resd that s hoord . of â€" works , BECAUSEâ€"The Growers‘ Cold Storage & Ice Company has been doi : an enormous amount of building at its plant on Livingston ave we, and it is not done yet. * BECAUSEâ€"Several milés of new cement walks are to be built in the townâ€" ship this fall. ° BECAUSEâ€"The Water Commission will lay several much needed new water mains on different streets in the town. s BECAUSEâ€"The contract has been let for the paving of Main street, its full f width, with curb and gutter, from Farrow‘s corner east to the easâ€" tern boundary of the town. Also the moving of the car tracks to centre of the road and the widening of the Forty Mile Creek bridge. BECAUSEâ€"The Water Commission is building a big pier and intake pipe out into the lake another one hundred feet.; BECAUSEâ€"The Grand Trunk Railway, in order to handle the Mgo amount of freight in and out of the plants of the Growers‘ Cold = age & Ice Co. have built a new switch over a half mile long rl.ta the local yards west to Kerman ° avenue with several _ bi 1 switches off of it. x % BECAUSEâ€"A new filtration basin that will filterâ€"over a million gallons of water a day is to be constructed at the pump house at the lake. PBECAUSEâ€"A new auxiliary pump is being installed at the pullp.m:lll ( I a new addition to the pump house has to be made. _ N F4 | THE INDEPENDENT| _ It was a disappointed lot of sous of the soli that wended their way southword in the evening A subscriber writing to The Indeâ€" pendent says:~â€" "I »m enciosing $280 to pay | my subscri,tion to Inucpendest. . Sorr® to have been u}nlo'. will not be . 6# careless next thne. i must tolt ow what breught me to time. 1 was sut walking one day when a storm . sme up and the only protection 1 could find was a bollow log. 1 erawled in side and thought I was QX, but as the ‘rain continued the log swelled and before I realized it 1 was in there so tight I couldn‘t move and still the rain continued. I gave up all hope wnd thought 1 was surely doomed. Of course my miadeeds came surging Into my mind and suddenly my anâ€" m:‘nbfl!’llol to The Independent up before we and 1 felt #o «mall about it that 1 crawled out quiee easlly." * It seems that the U. F. 0. Club of Emithville District had been trying for some time to get Drury to come to Grimsby Beach, but at the last meeting of the Club a definite date had not been settled upon. On Monâ€" day morning a small despatch dated from "Grimaby Beach" appeared in the Toronto morning papers/to ::: effect that Drury would be at Beach on _ Wednesday . afternoon, hence the‘great throng of farmers prssent. Instead of being at the Beach he was speaking at another summer rewort on the shores of lake Huron, known as Grand Bend. No doubt the despatch was sent to Toâ€" ronto from Crand Bend, but the teloâ€" graph operator on the Toronto end not beinz very well versed in geor : raphy got the name mixed and took it for Grimaby Beach. _ 7 Despite the railroad strik. across the ling Man ..i;? Director Kent, of the Canaglan â€" National . Exhibimon, r«dlcn a u:‘f‘“ ll(”‘l.t“t. l}c selioves the large crop . a early harvest tnrough Ontario will make up tor any deficieney in . American / arist traffic. Farmers and their families flocked to Grimsby Beach on Wednesday afâ€" terncon by the dozens to hear Premier Drury speak, bat the leader of the Ontario Agarians did not apâ€" pear. DRURY FAILED TO TURN UP nowW ABOUT Yor: )n Monâ€"| Back in the seventies the telephone h dated| was invented and a little later came red in} the carbon transmitter which made to u'-!hmc of commercis! value. The at . the ) te! for some years was considâ€" ernoon, | ered more of an smusement thee > farmers} utility, but todayâ€"well, to * at |hc|ucfllou.lll¢nvuv'¢ CC is +8 another| women who make t‘air visite 0s a of lake party line,â€"but ine miflions or doiâ€" md. No|lars of busin=se tranrscted over the te Toâ€" ulopim'ynm it very essential he teloâ€"|It is o still further reaca Into the Todr; the wireless telephone or to use 16 colned appolation "radio" is sti!‘ _ very much of a sovaltyâ€"is really as yet not,a nillity oxer,t for progressive newspapers to distribute to the country at large such news and entertainment as their fancy dic» tates. ‘The recelving "stations" are becom.‘ny numerous, but transimitting static«s are Comparatively few. The wost of Insts4ation is not the prime factor; a «ystem od calls or rathor pf calling has yet to be devised that will past to the nlw lelegraph . and i n Indespentith: when the" pire: as an . t less was brough‘ to the frontâ€"and considered by m~y as perhaps & sihillty, but cersainly not a -um' Yet though it few vears have elapsed sins« its invention many thousand l‘ses have been saved at sea thrgh it. if this method RADIO BUG HAS HIT GRIMSBYITES independent Reporter Vis.‘s Reâ€" cciving Sutt of "Bobby" Farrell and kes Acquaintâ€" ance af Mr. Static and Other Freak Gentlemen of Air. (Continu (MiHte) aud _ the TILLEY â€"COW . Methocist C! August 17, 18 Irvic, Olive P Cowan and t Orimrby, to th& late Mr Delfast. Ire!s The West 1 zation of coto sentiag the o in the British Canacian No year, competitidn th ago. _ The jo Ther A YOUNG cUP N"FENNzR Here 4s Viz~oU Micoards, ® nibibtn‘}, o+ ... Buth, who has M. Wasitan â€" he / Davis O#s tos> > "oam J AEROED â€" ntres throughout Canada was bad, very bad. _ Thousands of men and women : {vic authorities. _ In Grimsby everybody was healthy, happy and prosperous. previous winters. _ In fact, it was only $28.00. _ Conditions in other places have i grnr.:.n_v continues to be healthy, happy and prosperous. Laboring men, me: on the fat of the land and all enjoying life to the utmost. _ The outlook for the coming eople, in the know, claim that it will be a tougher winter than last winter. Conditions " as they have had and are having a prosperous summer, moreover there will still ds of men buo?' right up_till the middle of January. _ Then the building of the giâ€" t dfigaal act of the late H. H. Marsh in having the second large water main laid on acto were running, so you see that Grimsby looked after her own. There must 1 1923, so here they are: 0 8 _ _ BECAUSEâ€"The Warren Paving Co. are Il‘?iq a half mile of asphalt paveâ€" - 3 R ment between Kerman avenue and Farrows‘ corner, thirty feet wide ‘ % s with curb and gutter, ?-4 ECAUSEâ€"Two miles of al:rhllt minz has been laid between the eastern a town boundary and the ch by the Warren Paving Co. a BECAUSEâ€"Several new houses and other buildings have been and are being ; â€" built in different portions of the town and township. _ WR BECAUSEâ€"The Bell Telephone Co. in order "to handle the enormous 3 amount of business done by the people of this district over its 3 lines, are building another big trunk line through this district. Also iE are doing a great amount of other work. 4 ECAUSEâ€"All the factories of every kind in the town have been runmag a full force, and will continue to do so. J R USEâ€"The fruit growers in this district have had a fairly good crop of ' all small fruits and will harvest the biggest and best crop of peachâ€" * â€" o es and grapes in the history of the Great Grimsby Fruit Belt. ie ECAUSEâ€"It is contenplat;d to build a sewage system in Grin'i;). very Â¥ \ likely this fall and winter, at an estimated cost of $135,000. % At the Grimsb; in .on Thursday, y the Atev, Dr . doughter of a‘~s iat~ Win. » Cowan ae! Tilley, won of irs. Wen. Tilley m tm . tikk 'm h:! a vear 'I take place AUGUST 23, 1922 AUSEâ€"GRIMSBY IS THE BEST TOWN IN THE WORLD TO T LIVE IN. HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY. PLAYING HOCKEY _ BEACH PEOPLE _ . HONEY INDUSTRY IN AUGUST HEAT, NOT PLEASED) _ SsCIENTIFIC ONE Local Fans Turn Out En Masse to Attend Annual Meeting=â€" â€" New Officers Electedâ€"Name of Association Changedâ€"Enâ€" thusiagm At High Ebb. With the mercury kickins a hole through the top of the thermometer mearly a hundred hockey fans crowdâ€" @d into the council chambers on Thursday night last and sweltered and sweated through two hours of hockey argument, plans and election of officers. ‘The heat had" no more dampening effect on the ardor ot the fams than a cupfulâ€"of water would have on a volcano. Enthusiasm was runuing atâ€"high obb and the tans ars all prepped for a wonderful winâ€" tor of «port. PrestGent !. H. Fuarrell occuped . the chair. Secretwsy George E. Bolâ€" . tom gave an outline of last year‘s, wlv‘l.b. and usked that a nominatâ€" Ing com»aitiee be appointed, The . comsaitteo brought in nine noiinaâ€" : tans tur positions on the executive . of the asoclation. Taree of which . witharew. W. J. Reid of Boamevtlle and E. G JcCullam of Grimsby East . were elected by acclamation and on . ballot Dr. Buck, 4. P. Retertson and . Raw, Downs were vlectod to coms plete the comnittcs. The executh» will select their _ own seâ€"retary» Wreamuber . chansed to that of Grim hoekey «esnclation so as the whulo district from BDeamsyilie and gouth as Hke won streat sout? onto on Sawurday afternoon kinw and Gieun Teeter escape from at least b Injured when the Por were rlding in was «t threw It arosad crmsways o t street. The oc.unants escaped un! jured, but the "Houry" was smash to some extent. INDEPENDZNT ADS PAY | Old Ken: Bond Paper is good. Whi lâ€"Grimsby is the "Biggest Little Town in the World" and right at the preu‘n‘t time is oufieri;:g from :lf v‘:y se\';re attack of grow‘- mph-. a order to relieve the ing, the t amoyunt o ve _’enu'niferé:bd mbove has had to be tione anm had.to be * sTRUCE BV TROLLEY p s s<ruck by car. ‘The 1.~ front .« wby Distrlct to comprise mm t . LOTL trolley Ley The residents of Grimsby Beach who are also members of the Deer Park Golf and Country Club have somewhat taken exception to our receat article in which we drew atâ€" tention to the fact that Grimaby Beach Limited, under control of the Canada . Steamship . Lines . Limited. were ndvertising that "the new golf links at Grimsby Beach are now open"; interpreting this article to be a "slam" at the Grimsby Beach residentâ€"members. The object of the article was entirely to the contrary, but rather to hl‘-':' aitention to the fact of the advertising of the Steamship Company. in holding forth the Deer Park Golt and Country Club‘s links as an inducement to tourists and holiday makers to visit Grimsby Beach, when the Company, in reality, has no working agreement with the Club by which visitors to their resort might make use of the golf course, K. NAME OF EMIZARETM STREET Imilade:pble, Pepnavivadta, Auwust 15, 1999 of t Irimaby independem, ; Grimeby, Ont.. Ganada. 1 u'}u very interesting . article rinted iz The Independent of last w.ok glving derivation of the anmet I the streetsâ€"of the town oi Grhnaby, ‘ w»»+ that it atated thas the osigin f Wiimnbeth street is not definitely knova. In this connection i would ath th th U la homor ow stands.., Very traly yours all Uive EHenseu: . streot the late James 8 W. Withington s and thes $2.00 Per Yâ€"~â€"â€"â€"5 Cents a Copy Capt. W. W .Johnson Now Operâ€" ates Apiries At Four Different Pointsâ€"Has Ambition to Ship _ Bees‘ Product By Carload During the past week or so : the Beeâ€"ksepers of this vicinity have been busy harvesting the honey crop,. There are several . large aplaries in the neighborhood _ of Grimsby and a whole flock of enâ€" thusiastic aplarists. So it is not out of season for us to devote a little space to that very useful little inâ€" sect, the bee. Onee upon a time a boy said that the hbeo is unlike the dog. When asked for an explanation of his unâ€" usual statement he repited that it‘s hite was worse thad it‘s hi . ewe hite was woree thad it‘s burk.â€" Many of us can testify to that. Still that is not the only distinction that the bee has, for the bee is the only insect with the excepntion of the «itkâ€"worm that is kept by man in a sem{iâ€" domesticated state for his benefit. A hive of bees siiting in the middle of an orchard is meither artistic nor ornamental, and to the most of us it gives the same feellng as the sign "Beware of the dog". But when we consider that within it it houses a nopulation of aoy samber upâ€" to E: P LEmme DW 9T thirty thousand. of _ the busiest creatures in the world, one camnot but be amazed at the activity that must be taking place within its conâ€" tines, Ore wosld naturally think that the Insldo of the hive would be a seene Of the sreatest ‘I‘;l’fif. but the very reverse is true i the hive has its ETBE COVERE NWE fook mto 204 beX quertion That" ofe into quest! n one is very likely (to ritus important tacts. While the layman considers the bee merely as a honey producer, the most |-um=| tunction the, bee perform*in this rlet i% in the pollination of the fralt blossom« the production of the Rowey is on‘y inci dentsl, 1f 1t were not tor their | ac> !mmn in this work the (ralt anutsut Some Day. BAND CONCI RT (Continued en pag (Jerry Reld) 4 dn ©CCTOOr, but the very and each dentzer of allotted task which e .?M_ a with as the sign But when . we it houses a imber up to the . busicat I..oeu;:: ithin its con.