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Its Costing Moneyâ€" t _ What do you think of our Main street, Grimsby | now, compared to when you first met it*? f 4 0 <me 0 un 0 â€"<ameâ€" * DJ ()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()-1 * .0.()-()-()-()-()-()-()-()¢()-()-()-().0-().0-0-(0:. .:‘)-().()-()-()-()-()-0-()-()-()-()-()-1 Critics said that Main street, Grimshby, was too highâ€"those same critics will probably say, in the future, that it is too low. There are a good many ways 0O on this little old earth of ours, I roadbuilders have found the one it that There is one consolation to the ratepayers of. Grimsby, however, and that is that they have only to pay so‘ much per square yar for . all . the excavation that is being done on Main streetâ€" they will not have to pay for any square yards {hat ‘ure uot excavated. is _ s_. 2 l c l es TWO But they will find out that excavated will add up to a g ed dollars. "The fool and his mofiey are soon parted" said the little boy when he dropped his penny , into the missionary box; and that is what the Grimsâ€" by council should have said when it signed the contract for the excavation of Main street at so much per square yard. It is not the excavation of so many square yards of dirt that is going to be the rub, exactly â€"â€"but it will be the filling up of the spot again with something that costs a lot more than sand and clay after the excavating has been all done, gone and finis?led. j It does not seem to m them, but it may make a taxpayer when he comes Wilful Waste Well Doneâ€" The County Engineer and the County Council are throwing money away as fast as they can get hold of it this seasonâ€"if it makes any differâ€" e The County Council, under the supervision of the County Engineer, has not built one foot ‘of road this year that is worth Twentyâ€"five Cents on ‘the Dollar. The new piece of road in the Township of Clinton, starting at the home of Dr. Newton Cosâ€" sett and running east to within a quarter mile of the Grand Trunk Station, Beamsville, was: a beautiful piece of road one week after it was builtâ€"today it looks like a last year‘s birdsnestâ€" in two months it will be as bad as the piece of road from Grimsby to Grimsby Beach was, last spring. The money spent on this road was absolutely and positively lost, insofar as value is concerned, to everybody except those who pulled down good salaries and wages while the work was goâ€" ing on Here was a splendid chance to improve a soft sand road and convert it into a serviceable, upâ€" standing road for the fruit growers and the use of the general public, by the application of a litâ€" tle brainwork and the expenditure of some money, by the construction of a tarvia roadâ€"the money was spent all right, but brains used?â€" Nix. Of course it is difficult for one to use what he has notâ€"how can a manuse brains if he had none?â€"how can he build a road if he does not know how?â€"That is the position that our County Engineer finds himself in. A rich man once said to a por man: "Why do you not pay your debts?"â€"and the poor man reâ€" plied "I gladly would if I had any money." Issued every Wednesday from the Office of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby, Ontario TELEPHONESâ€" â€" Business Office, 36 Editorial Office, 23 Members Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. â€" Member Selected Town Weeklies of Ontario. Member Grimsby Chamber of Commerce I might say to the Coun‘ty Engineer: "Why do ‘Established 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers FANCIES THE INDEPENDENT are a good many ways of wasting money little old earth of ours, but I think . that Iders have found the one way of wasting has everything else skinned to a frazzle. THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER JAS. A. Lfl(INGSTON, . _ORLON LIVINGSTON, FACTS FTranlk FPairborn General Manager A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager eem to make any difference to y make a slight difference to the he comes to foot the bill. AND ) <ame 0 â€"<am> 0â€"cme> 0â€"ammpâ€" Editor t that the number of yards to a good many hard earnâ€" c<mmPâ€"0 gig 0â€"<B»â€"0 44 0â€"<mpâ€"(0 .6 1/ you 'not use your brains when,. you construct a road?"â€"and his reply should be "How can I use what I have Any man or.any set of men who will spend money building a stone road to carry automobile and truck traffic, in the yeéar 192, are, in a plain manner‘ of speaking, jackassesâ€"for carrying heavy automobile and truck traffic, an ordinary waterbound macadam road is an hundred years behind a clay ‘roa’d;' for a clay road will carry heavy traffic in‘ dry weather, but a stone road completely falls down in all weather. Any man or any set of men, who continues, to waste the taxpayers money on the construction of tone road where there is heavy automobile . and truck traffic show plainly that they are ab'_soluteâ€" ly without enough common sense and gumption to learn what evéry suckling child has learned about stone roads, in the past ten years. _ Li If I accused the County Engineer or any memâ€" ber of the County Council of ‘being a, thief, they would be very indignant indeed; but I do openly and publicly accuse the County Engineer and each member of the County Council of robbing the people of the. money expended on this piece of road. j How then, can a County Engineer or a set of County Councillors pretend to defend themselves against the charge of willfully and barefacedly robbing the people by taking the public money and spending it in building a soft, mushy, waterâ€" bound stone road‘ on a leading thoroughfare, a thoroughfare that was built to be almost as much as the highway of which it is an offshoot? j I only take this piece of road, and speak of it, because it is such a glaring example; but it is only a sample of the kind of work ‘that has been done all over the County of Lincoln, under the supervision of the County : Engineer and the County Council. : When the Government of Ontario spent thouâ€" sands upon thousands of dollars upon two miles of road between Grimsby and Grimsby Beach, in the construction of two new stone roads inside of eighteen months, only to find at the end of that period that they had the worst two miles of road in the . Dominionâ€" of . Canada, which ‘was ‘ so acknowledged to be by every motorist that ever drove over itâ€"that should have been a lesson. I defy the County Engineer to produce oneâ€" halfâ€"mile of really first class road that he has ever built in his life, in the County of Lincolnâ€"â€" Every dollar paid to this man has been wasted money, and more than wasted money, because not only is his salary wasted but he wasted in addition to that, thousands upon ‘thousands of dollars of the people‘s moneyâ€"and why the County Council stands for this kind of thing is a mystery and a marvel to me. : 4k * J3 . Either the County Council are a bunch of chumps who stay at home and never leave their own backyards except to make a trip to St. Catharines to draw their Council fees, and who never see Oof piece of road good of bad; or elge they are willfully and knowingly a party ‘to the robbery from the people, of the money spent on these County roads. To prove that the money spent on this new stone road from the Dr. Cosse'gt corner, east, has been wasted, one has only to drive over it at the present time and see the deplorable state that it has gotten intoâ€"then compare it with the old piece of so called tarvia road starting about a quarter mile west of the Beamsville Grand Trunk station an@® running east for one mile. I have, before now, commented on this latter piece of road, and have stated that it is only a secondâ€"or even a thirdâ€"classs piece of tarvia roadâ€"but even at that it is a one thousand per cent. better road ‘today than the new road conâ€" structed by the County Engineer, leading to it, in the past three months is. And I will state further that one year from now that third class piece of tarvia road will still be in good condition, while the new stone road built this summer will be worse than the rocky roads from hell to Dublinâ€"and that is the kind of stuff we pay County Councillors and County Engineers and Superintendents to construct. P Money is Moneyâ€" Attorneyâ€"General Raney says that race track gambling is a most damnable thingâ€" Quite so!â€"but the Five Per Cent. Rakeoff that Raney gets seems to be quite useful to the Proâ€" vincial Treasury in helping. to keep the wolf from the door of the Provincial strongbox. I once contributed a Five Dollar Bill to some charitable institution, and I made the remark to a preacher: "I won that Five Dollars at the races"â€"he replied jokingly, "Oh,‘well, it is the Lord‘s money even if the devil did have it for a while. James Gangling Toofer wrote a skit that made a wide and instant and instant hit. Men said, "The gent who wrote that screed is a phenomenâ€" on, indeed." And publishers of many prints sent cheques of pink and other tints, and urged this James to gird his loins, and they would keep him staked with coins. And James, he toiled from sun to sun, and turned out stories by the ton, and everywhere you chanced to look you‘d see his name, in mag or book. "If I should pause o it is with Br‘ier Raney‘s Five Per Cent. Rakeoff: â€" It is the Lord‘s money even though the devilish gamblers did have it for a while. A Prophecyâ€" Well, it is my opinion that if the thing comes to war, a good many Turks‘ bodies will surround the British bayonets before it is all done with. â€" _ I see by the daily papers that the Turks have surrounded the British at the Dardanelles. MAKING A HIT not of?" THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY: ONTARIO for half a day, some do he muttered, as he pun became his chief disea: for the kale, his brain g stale; his yarns, that dragged to their end a he lost his grip, alas, ® been class. To one w grind the precious thing ner all the dimes that ern times; and when j hang up your chisel, b gambol on the green, gasoline. For . man _ | when he is in the has b Attention is being drawn to a ctase that came before the court at Montreal a few days ago. . A woman, driven by starvation and want, came to court with her three children. and abandoned them there, claiming as justification for her act that she had been forcéf’ do it because the law had taken away her husband and put him in jail, and there was no person else to act as breadwinâ€" ner for the family. . Wl The man*ewho goes to great deal of bodily disce some twangs of conscient nights, but for the most p end of his term looking i experience. . We are anxious to CcOVEI penings in the town and d with that end in view we se everyone in the neighborhe wedding, a birth, a death, c ily, or any of the family g0 social or business church, meéeting, in ifact, anything 2LR NeR CA LC ie g o en d ons on is news, or‘ can be mould phone or call. _ With port all the news that f factory to all. No persofl.;z doings are too unimportant the paperâ€"and if you tell th self it will eliminate the.,' ity of the items being incor Y ears from now, when YOUNGg men of today will be whiteâ€"headed and hObfi'_ $ about on canes, their piping voices will 1', fupt the conversaâ€" tion in the airplane with thIS?) "I mind the time just like it was yesterday, back there in 1922 when Bell, the inventor O MMhe teleéephone, died. Strangest part of it all wa8 that in his last years he didn‘t have any phone Uhis own house, Said it was a nuisance." . e Investigation showed peared in court some ti victed of operating a sti and he was sent to jail" Thisg is not the first 0 the surface. â€" Almost a can show a number offé% real punishment is heafiy;%‘w left at home. o hFlabed «hoii ooahutits PuSQZ)â€" In this case the suff, to the mother and the th The law took the br hold away, but the same in his place, and the re soon came to the point ( a defect that calls for fe that no attention can be j no complaint has been he That will interest peOP]“5§§f the future more than any other fact abouw "qgreat inventor, just as it has receniy been«c: fiflfw%t talle; _ |_ And yet it is a véfy ©*"p»E pifce of péychology. A clerk in a candy storé soon gets "sick of the sight of it." § h9 y The housewife, though she loves the furnishâ€" ings of her home, often becomes bored almost beâ€" yond endurance by the sight of the everâ€"present broom and dishâ€"fpan. . & |â€" Small wonder, that Bell became bored and anâ€" noyed by the telephone after devoting most of his long life to it. [‘‘. f § j It corresponds to you, starting jubilantly on a task, but coming down the home stretch with. "If I ever finish this up, I‘ll never tackle anâ€" other one." t A kitten never tires of playing with a ball of yarn. â€" A squirrel would be content. to run forâ€" ever in its revolying cage. A toad never wearies of music. All animal life is more or less contented with routine existence. . The difference between it and man is that iman alone has the nervous temperaâ€" ment, forever seekiqig a change, firing of the old, laboring for the thrill of the new. < This nervousness is what has made man de velop into civilization while animal life has plod ded along mechanically, without material im prove or progress. i $ In each of us there is a mysterious something that demands contract in 11fe, to keep us normal and progressing., _ & Physically, e;fiotionally and mentally we react from the thrills of intemse activity to a languid torpor. yod § j ; It is a natural law and no life can be happy without recogizing and conforming to it. â€" Very few men can avoid going to seed without having a hobby. _ /8 #0)¢ Often a wife is blamed for being irritable and grumbling when all that‘s wrong is that she is deâ€" prived of contrast by being cooped up without proper diversion. P o ; Work life a beaver, when you‘re working. When you quit work, forget itâ€"if you can. Concentration is a fine asset, but only in its place. If life bores you, it is your own fault. The remâ€" edy is simpleâ€"cast about for diversions that will give you contrast. _ And be thankful for sorrows and setbacks.. Without them for contrast, all pleasures and successes would become boreâ€" some. You understand mankind better when you reâ€" flect that failure, rather than righteousness, lessâ€" ened the number of home brewers. The smaller the town, the less money is reâ€" quired to enable you to talk patronizingly about What has become of the oldâ€"fashioned woman who dyed it and made it do another year? The penalty of being a highâ€"brOW is that you must be always on your guard to keep from seemâ€" ing to enjoy anything. It musts be nice to belong to the have nothing to do but wonder who is flirting with now. The only man who doesn‘t break the one who sits and does nothing; © be jailed on general principles. What a peaceful old world this would be if it wasn‘t inhabited. Another reason why coal is hard to get cause there is no law against using it. Age condemns the flapper. But will get over it. And age won‘t. LET US HAVE Uncle Josh Says:â€"â€" WHAT BORES YOU? WHO SUFFERS? bill might get away," 1 the keys; and greed And as he struggled tired and sagged and were full, of pep lagged step; and so joined the weary has (as a gift, I say: Don‘t ay. Don‘t try to corâ€" : been coined in modâ€" AJabors gall and tire, i or lyre, and go and burn eight quarts of reached an evil pass class.â€"Walt Mason. tferm. > _ / vinner of that houseâ€" did not put another ‘,'as that the family int and starvation. L¢ca_ses to come to ourt in the country instances where the n the innocent ones the husband had apâ€" efore and been conâ€" Sentence was passed idoes not suffer a Et There may be © keep him up at Ee; comes out at the ‘the worse for the ad been passed on hildren. â€" There is in voice so. loud Eto the excuse that i When there is a visitor to the famâ€" way on a trip, any ©ol or any other y;'.d everything that Into news,;, write, sistance we can reâ€" in a manner satisâ€" t to feel that their receive mention in : things to us yourâ€" ility and probabilâ€" tly reported. e entire news hapâ€" ict each week, and the coâ€"operation of HE NEWS +A omm ) cmmme Wt the smart set and vho your husband some and he the flapper Py is beâ€" A ) d .:Q-0-0-0-0-()-()-(7-(7-0-()-().()-(_()-()-D* A .:0)-l_fl-()-l)-l)-()-()-()-()-()"l)-()-()-().()-()-()-()-()-( ) â€"<me 0â€"<mt 0 <am 0â€" Sir:â€"I see by the Independent that North Grimsby Council is going to put in a cement sidewalk from Kerâ€" man avenue to Hagar‘s school house. Now down there they have a good road as well as a cinder path. Why should that money be spent in that diâ€" rection while a path is badly needed up the mountain road and very badly needed? A petition was put in for a path but it was only put in from Mr. Bierd‘s place to the corner on the Ridge road. % There was a good cinder path for awhile down the mountain, but the farmers who do not have to walk in the mud drove their horses right on the path/and also skidded down it till there is no path at all and even autos will come down the path and toot their horns for pedestrians to turn out into the middle of the road. If the council had any consideration for the tax payers on the mountain who have to walk down the mountain every day and sometimes twice a day, they would put in a decent curbing to keep autos and rigs off the path and then fill it in with fine stone and cinâ€" ders and{ it would be a good permanâ€" o path" un inaregyd.â€"they dust put Editor Independent 2 fewW Cinders down whenever they think of it and let it go at that. â€" If the council had to walk up the path for one week, once a day, â€" in wet weather, when the mud is ankle deep, I will wager the path would be built uo and built well before the week up and DuiIC WELHL ULILXIOE c pAUN . CRSCOCK was out. Now, Mr. Editor, 1 hope the counâ€" cil will pay a little attention to the mountain tax payers and give them a little consideration for their money instead of spending it all in one year or I venture to predict this year‘s council will get very few votes from the tax payers who walk the mountain path.. Thanking you for your space. I remain. Yours truly, Make homebrew while the moon shines. . * | When it comes to being "kickful", there‘s no brew like home. The strongér the drink the greater the "think." , Srimsby," Oct loas» came c -()-()-()¢()-()-()-().()-()-()-()-()-()flh-()-()-()-()“ What eb Saps | aEuut- BEING COCK SURE 2 "TLord; L ‘am ready." "Thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me."* The first was cockâ€"sure Peter. : But don‘t you throw any stones at Simon Peter, for he was an eager, zealous disciple of Jesus Christ. And when he said he was ready to go with Jesus to prison and to death he meant every word of it QL PC > <â€"He was ready to die with Christ in a fair fight. He proved that when the rabble came to arrest the Lord, He fought and would have fallen fighting; but when Jesus said, "Put up thy sword," Peter was flabbergasted. Cockâ€"sure according to his own programme, and in his own strength, he denied his Captain threée times because God‘s ways ire not as our ways. â€" The boast was honest and heartfelt, but it was all Peter. Did you ever think of this narrative as being a splendid proof Of the divine origin of the Bible? _ Peter might have desired to suppress this disgraceful story, but God prints itâ€"prints it to show me what I am by nature and what awful things I can do when I trust my own strength and my own plan. : ' *Luke 22:33, 34 And that threeâ€"fold ‘denial showed, Peter and shows me what human nature is capable ofâ€"yes my human natureâ€"for "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall," f Did you ever think of this narrative as being a splendid proof of the divine origin. of the Bible?.. Peter miglit have desired to suppress THAT MOUNTAIN PATH CTCHAXT he. town XDVERTISE ! EHAT now is the time ; need advertising more V ERTISE! F THAT your property will the outside world kn awake.‘" ADV ERTI~ THAT people from neighhb will come where thet ADVERTISE! THAT the town which c better than it now. h: ADVERTISE! THAT if you don‘t get ou! trade, some neighbor VERTISE! THAXT if they do, they w should get... ADVE Did You Ever Stop to Think E. R. W AITE, Secy. & Board of C AETHOS SANDY 2nd., 1922. 0 <me 0 <mm 0 â€"<a00 â€" that gets advertising grows. H{)RSE SENSE (By Walter H. Gardner) Once you had a pride in knowing How to judge a head of stock. You could pick the really good onesâ€" _ And you used to love to‘t Ik Of the points that told tha storyâ€" Barrell, withers, flank and gait! You could tell the one worth having From the poor and lazy skate! Mighty seldom you were cheated, For you bought with lots of careâ€" And you‘ve got to buy a tractor; As you used to buy a mare! Oh! you once were mighty careful On a sultry summer‘s day, f Not to overlook your horsesâ€" Not to feed ‘em too . much hay! And you kept ‘em under shelter If, the day was overâ€"warmâ€" Tied ‘em snug inside the stable If there came a driving storm! But your pocketbook will suffer, And your checkâ€"book feel remorse; If you do not not treat your tractor As you used to treat your horsew When you hitched up in the morning And the mule aâ€"limping came, Whyâ€"you left him in the stableâ€" Never thought to work him lame! If he had a touch of colicâ€" If you found him off his feed ; Then you let him rest and nursed himâ€" i Never mind how bad your need! Now, whenâ€"cylinders arse missin‘. Fix ‘em firstâ€"a worthy rule! For you‘ve got to treat your tractor As you used to treat your mule! The raw recruit was on sentry duty for the first time. All went woll unâ€" til he saw someone approachins. "Halt! Who goes there?" . he "Officer of the ply. uy "Halt! cried. your eye for you _ _"Martha." said Pat, holding up his hand reproachfully, "don‘t spake disâ€" Pat who had been fighting, arrivâ€" ed home with his left eye badly disâ€" colored. | j 3 "i-iisr wife asked who hbhad injured him. y "Mike Murphy,"*he replied, sadly. "What!" she exclaimed.. "Do you mean to say you let a little underâ€" sized man like Mickie Murphy black IN LIGHTER VEIN Copyright 1921â€"J. A 0 <am 0 <am> 0 â€"<mapâ€"() <am 0â€"<metâ€"( ‘-()-()-()-()-()-()-(.:. 239 ay." was the reâ€" me â€" what 3 far when , Lo e mm en on y DR a2CCO PPORUUIEGO # l Office. _ Phone 36 or 28. f t/f mm % l ARCHITECT o IMNV\NV\MIM;W\MM $ W. M. WILSON * i f Architect g | 15 Queen Street. Telephone 2418w. ! > St. Catharines. tf i AERRRNALUTNDNRRARWe mm > e enc i m i ) ommer eregnnnoommereamerenens & MTETO O TD AOAITHmm Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public 45 Federal Life Building Hami‘lto:llt t Nelles Road UR. D. CLARK j Dentist Officeâ€"Corner Main and Mountain Streets, over Canadian Bank of Commerce & Office hoursâ€"9 to 12, 1.30 to 5.30 Phone 127 Grimsby, ()ntar{tlbr n /f Hamilton MW.AM.WILSON .. ; f Architect . â€" 15 Queen Street. Telephone 2418w. â€" St. Catharines. f AERRRNALUTNDNRRARWe mm > e enc ~ort on c s ommmmageneomeeremcamngy MUSIC â€"TEACHER " Miss Louise Dell, A.T.C.M., teacher of piano and theory: pupils prepared for examinations, special attention to beginners. Class opens ‘Sept. h General Aa~tâ€"â€"~â€"â€" ies LEGAL (( ~G. B. MccoNACHIE Hominvieon Land Surveyors, Ontario ! and Surveyors, Civil Engineers ames J. MacKay, Ernest G. MacKay William W. Perric Phone Regent 4766 72 James St. N. Home Bank Building 86 Keith Street, Hamilton Piano Tuner Orders Can Be Left At Independent Office. Phone 36 or 238. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Money to loan at current rates Officesâ€"Grimsby and Beamsville Dentist Extraction with gas ‘Phone 92 for appointment Office â€" â€" Farrell Block Barrister, Notary Public, etc. s Money to Loan. Offftce:s Main Street, Grimsby Phone 7. Wednesday, October 4, 1927 MARRIAGE LICENSES HENRY CARPENTER Issuer of Marriage Licenses Council Chambers Grimsby, Ontario (Late of Royal Engineers) . VANCE R. FARRELL GILBERT RAYNER CIVIL ENGINEER __â€"â€"â€" Phone 440]J W. E. RANDALL PIANO TUNER im rrrrn HARRY HAMER R. C. CALDER LANDY SURYVEYXOR mm mm mm avun‘ / â€"MacKAY &â€"PERRIE DENTAL Grimsby uo o Alf Ontario t/f tif tif tif t]f