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It is bad enough to have private boot leggers organized in rum running game, but when our Canadian Merchant Marine is becoming infected with the rum running craze it is time for the government at Ottawa to wake up. The engineer who objected. to this waste was dismissed without an inâ€" quiry. â€" The timber inspector who objected to the graft was also dismisked. Watson, who made the investigation in this department and made the reâ€" port, was dismissed, but afterward restored to the service. Employees were forced to sign documents in blank, and these were filled in to suit officials. Two Prices for Lumberâ€" paid than wa where $58,000 for nothing. Senator I: National Railw Looting is Chargedâ€" Merchant Marine Rum Runningyâ€" h Senator J. D. Taylor, of New Westminster, B. ( Chamber, at Ottawa, on Thursday, May 8th, and wholesale graft in the administration of the Canadi M Specialized Graftâ€" The lack of vegetables at some of the shipping points was emphasized by members of the directorate, who declared that in making up mixed cars â€"and there were many of theseâ€" (Continued on Pags Five) upon ULne LFaue, 50 mNecessdaly fOP a successful business. The customers last year, were satisfied, it was pointâ€" ed out, and as the prospects for a large crop this year are good, the meeting was of the opinion that, despite the reverses and hardships of the past, there was before the Comâ€" pany coâ€"operation, and the industry, a future worth fighting for. make contracts, had a large part in the decision of the mecting. The tonnage, it was noted, was not as great as the previous year, but the general excellence of the quality of the products had produced the effect upon the trade, so necessary for a The fact that the Company has a good standing with the trade, an inestimable assest, that last year it had improved through the grading system, the quality of its products, and that there were already many enâ€" quiries and overtures by the trade to Through the executive of the shipâ€" ping districts, organized in 1923 on the unit basis, reports from these sections were given and it was signiâ€" ficant that, with one exception, all five members of the district exécuâ€" tives were present, and all districts had a majority representation of their executives. When President Craise called upon the meeting to decide the fate of the Company for another year, to a man they voted to carry on. nad . not .. been‘‘ . as . good : _ as./ it should be, he declared, but nevertheâ€" less he was strongly of the ° opinion that there were enough interested in the advancement of the industry to successfully carry on the work. Other directors and officials submitted reâ€" ports of the affairs of the Company, including the members who had signiâ€" fied their intention of standing by the coâ€"operative. The Niagara Peninsula Growers will:carry on. This was decided at a meeting of the directors at Grimsby on Tuesday night, May 6, when the exâ€" ecutives of the nine shipping districts met the central directors and unaniâ€" mously declared themselves heartily in favor of continuing as a coâ€"opera® tive. President Arthur Craise occuâ€" pied the chair and submitted reports of the work done by the directors since the annual meeting on February 18. The response and support of the fruit a n d vegetable growers had not been" as . sood : _ asâ€": it ng we PENINSULA GROWERS WILL CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS Sena Depa Unanimous Decision is Reached by Directorsâ€"Company Has Good Standing With the Trade â€"Prospects Are Pleasing Though Season is Backward. THIRTYâ€"NINTH YEAR ac1an We in Canada 1 P 12 en n He FACTS and FANCIES lina 1€ d c Taylor then dealt with the Canadian Nati nent, and read from a report that an invest ty Thoraton. . In this report it was in i man who refused to be na M tl idian Farmer had me ifterwards at Prince covered that a fraud 0 rylorâ€"said that on all the lumber purch ays in British Columbia from $5 to $8 necessary. He drew attention to an â€" was charged for service which others ylor said he had s s ship and also that es at the company‘s mm has At cha rial Railwas d absence n surance comp by FRANK FAIRBORN iged in rum ed that the fast approaching the standard of graft and looting that ch u1 (Continued on page 2 The mate 1€ of the shipâ€" in : 1923 ‘ on from these it was signiâ€" specialized point in United States political affair tl na Kupert dulent â€" nie titis unnin iCce 1€ PAID UP LIST Mrs. J. M. Book, Grassie June 1, 1925 J. H. Wells, Grimsby â€" April 15, 1925 C. Taylor, Grimsby April 15, 1925 Major Hiscott, Niagaraâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake May 7. 1925 The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon ‘and was largely attended{ by relatives "and friends, services were conduclted by the: Rev. °P. A. Hawke of Kansas City, Kansas:; Interâ€"] ment took place in Queen‘s Lawn, Cemetery. The pallbearers wereâ€"Thos. Sower«; by, J. E. Lawson, R.A. Hunter, W. H' VanDuzet, Rome F. ‘YanDyke, P (J. Groce. | The deceased gentleman was a member of Grimsby Lodge A. F. & A. M., having being made a Mason on April 1st, 1882. He was also a memâ€" ber of the Canadian Order of Foresâ€" ters. In religion he was a lifelong Methodist and in politics ‘a staunch TLiberal. ..‘)-0.()-()-()-().0-0-()“()-4 In 1882 he moved to North Grimsby where he resided many years. He acted as salesman for many years travelling in different parts of the Province. For the past three years he has resided in Grimsby East. In 1878 he married Mary Jackson, daughter of the late John Jackson, of Leamington, Ont. He is survived by one brother, the Rev. J. E. Russ, of Harrow, Ont.; his wife, two sons, Frank E., of Grimsby and Charlie of Niagara Falls, Ont., and one daughter, Mrs. Roland Philâ€" lips, of Buffalo. The deceased came to Grimsby in early life and followed the trade of carpenter. The grandfather of the deceased, the late Ezekiel Russ, was a pionecer United Empire Loyalist, coming from New Jersey in 1802 and settling on a farm south of the Thirty Mountain. There the late Wm. Russ and other members of the Russ family were born. THE INDEPENDENT The late Mr. Russ was ‘born in Smithville, on April 14th, 1858 and was a son of the late Wm. Russ, of Smithville and North Grimsby, his mother being a daughter of the late Squire Smith. Mr. H. E. Russ, a lifelong resident of this vicinity, passed away at his home, Grimsby EHast, on Saturday evening, May 10th, at the age. ofâ€" 66 years, after a lingeringâ€" illness of several months. the ind that Henry E. Russ Crosses Great Divide After a Lingering Iliness of Several Monthsâ€"Came of U. E. Loyalist Stock. 8th, and chargec GRIMSBY LOSES GOOD CITIZEN 12 h U cn na 1 mated th M 11 verhaulin od up in the Sena erchan 1€ 1ade de Rail w W1 M ilways Purcha officer had mac 12e 11 W h hat there was M graft and dariy he stean otleggin re l ime and Marine de ie di resen ) <mmâ€" 0â€"<m» 0 â€"<um>â€"0 n the 21st seriousls INDEPENDENT ADS PAÂ¥ ’ The season is backward in Nova ‘| Sceotia, although not so late as last year.. April in British Columbia was cold and backward, but growth is | nearly normal for the time of year. f A report from Western Ontario | states that in testing for blossoms of | the different varieties, Baldwins show | for a good crop, Spys medium and | Greenings practically none. Cherries | have a showing for a full crop, proâ€" | vided, ofâ€"course, that weather condiâ€" tions remain favorable. In the â€" Niaâ€" gara District all varieties of fruit trees give indications of an average crop, excepting plums, which do not] appear to be asâ€"heavily loaded as iul 1923. The strawberry beds show great promise, in fact give evidencel of a good crop this season. There ls! no indication of any frost injury to _raspberry canes or any other of the, €] Although it is too early to make a definite statement of the probable fruit crop, indications are that there will be a good crop of practi_ca.lly all. fruits in all the fruit. sections of Canada, according to MfOTMAtION collected by the Fruit Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Weather conditions during the next few weeks will be allâ€"important in confirming or falsifying this predicâ€"ll tion. But Weatherman Has Final Say â€"Strawberries Look Promising â€"Fruit Branch Surveyâ€"Conâ€" siderable Damage to Trees in British Columbia by Pocket Gopher. ’:‘)-l)-()-()-l INDIGATIONS POMNT T0 6000 GROP 0F FRUT scene taken in front of Village Inn ten years ago next Sunday.,,When Peace Envoy Ambassadors from Argentina, Brazil and Chilli visited Grimsby. The A. B. C Mediatoras were in conference at Niagara Falls settling international troubles . of C. DINNER C. W.F. CARPENTER Secretary D. WALKER, GRIMSBY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1924 esider We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreClation to our many friends and neighbors for their symâ€" pathetic kindness \tli(/,m‘ing our recent bereavement. 7 + Charlie Day, of Toronto, is back in the Beach gettingv%hg"*fiig ice cream parlor and restaurant ready for openâ€" ing on May 24th. _‘ Grimsby Beach will open fo season on the 24th. _ the C. N. .R. t ping platform by an additio; length. It is the intention of James 1 lowe to erect a new house on most northerly lot on Marlowe ave this summer. . #iak : /, [E _onions hNhave, The beets and | turnips are up and w?'gf';f"o,-wing rapidly, | but are still some weeks away from ! the table. The lettuce is thriving well and will be ready for use in about ’ two days. .. is t , Besides experimenting with vegeâ€" i/tables he has also spent considerable time studying out fall. spraying for cherry Aphis. He sprayed his trees and bushes last fall, late, for this disâ€" case and sprayed again very early inl April. He claims that> it is imposâ€"l sible to, find the least trace of Aphis on any of his trees or bushes, while{ a considerable amount of it can be found on bushes in the neighborhood.’ He believes that late fall spraying and very early spring spraying will make the Aphis an unknown quantity in this district. f Grimsby East News Notes The new house started last fall by James Marlowe on his fourâ€"acre plot north of the G.T.R. tracks is aboutl completed and will be ready for 0¢â€"| cupancy in a few days. | Mr. Davis, of Elizabethtown, Ont..’ has purchased two building lots on Marlowe avenue and will eréect new houses upon them this summer. un bed injfyus=t*~"~â€"@fiemees menuet â€" 23 one would be planted\in®" the spring, and leaving it to grow over winter in the same mannetr,.as a spring planted bed. Result, a fine patch of onions from which he has been pulling and selling large quantities every day for the past ten days or more. One of these fine days Grimsby East will have an honestâ€"toâ€"goodness Experimental/Farm ‘for fruit and garâ€" den truck. In fact it has a miniature one now, but if James Marlowe of that thriving district keeps on he will have a real big one. / "Jim" has a fruit farm that is like avgarden patch at at1 times, but of late he has taken ulp the work Oof exâ€" perimenting with tiFferent methods of growing vegetable«} spraying fruit eslowine vegstal ;gfi%}&' sgn bug fruit trees and bushesg, ‘past fall he conâ€" ceived the ide ) a| “‘ff'lg»a‘lg,,rge on im bed in u=t* "*PeoKe menuer â€"as James Marlowe, of Fxrimsby East, Beâ€" lieves He Can Control Cherry Aphis â€"Selling Outs'jde Grown Onions â€"=News iNotes EXPERIMENTING WITH SPRAYING of shipping room has caused N. R. to enlarge the fruit shipâ€" atform at Gtimsby East station idditional thirty feet to its Mrs. H. E. Russ and CARD OF THANES sns Emss 10 â€"â€" ath _ alh oo ad ).()-(‘.U“()‘(l“().{)-()-()”\ ilfaz'm that is like 1 times, but of .}) the work of exâ€" fferent methods of and spraying fruit Family vounc) MANY DAYS AWAY the d Mother‘s Day of 1923 was Blossom Sunday in the Fruit Belt. Mother‘s Day of 1924 could hardly be called Bud Sunday, let alone anyâ€" thing else. The «cold wet weather this spring has retarded. the buds and blossoms to such an extent that unless the weathâ€" er clears up and sunshine prevails for the next ten days there won‘t even be a Blossom Sunday this year. At the best Blossom Sunday cannot now be sooner than May 25th and posâ€" sibly will be as late as the 30th of June. Then again there is the possiâ€" bility of the blossoms coming on with a rush and dropping off quickly, so that at no time will it be possible to see the Fruit Belt in full blossom‘ array. ; { BLOSSOMS ARE Attorney on this ma with me. I find M suspend sentence. Cope, because if the then he had a righ to protect himself. You may go on su: Morsgan." 10D ‘"Municipalities do not pay enough money in order to secure competent men for police officers. ~I cannot see why this town cannot afford to pay a first class man‘instead of trying to get a man to do three or four jobs and be inexpérienced in the police ‘"I further believe that Morgan beâ€" lieved that he had a right to do what he did, I think he honestly believed he was doing his duty. He was inâ€" experienced. Even he had had a right to arrest Cope I cannot see why a roâ€" bust young man of thirty years of the prowess he claims to possess, being a boxer and having licked good men, should have to resort to hitting a man fiftyâ€"four years of age over the head with a brick, as in the three tumbles they had he was on top each time. { fihim by George) | .. ) .. . _ _ _ was suspended. _ _ _ _ The charge against Cope of ass4ultâ€" ‘fng a police officer while in ; disâ€" fl%‘h"fl‘g’e-of his, duty was dismissed, \ Magistrate read his decision from a voluminous â€" bundle of typewritten evidence,.going into the case and the statements of the various witnesses in a most thorough manner. He stated that "Morgan had no right to arrest Cope without a warâ€" rant. That he could not arrest any man on suspicion, but believed that Morgan, like many other officers of the law, thought that he could do so. He could have taken the bag away from Cope under the:â€"O.T.A. but still would have had to allow him to go on his way and arrest him on a‘ warrant if he wanted to do so. In some respects I did not believe all’ the evidence of Cope or of other witâ€" nesses. court on Friday afternoon last was found guilty by Magistrate Campbell, on the charge of assault laid against him by George Cope, but sentence him by George was suspended. Morean Found Gucty SENTANCE SUSPENDED ould Have Taken Bag Away From Cope Under O.T.A., But Could Not Legally Arrest Him â€"Must Have Warrant to Arâ€" rest Himâ€"Must Have Warrant to Arrest Any Man. Ex-ConstEb_lg Wm. Morgan 1ave E. DO GOOD PRINTING conferred with the on this matter and he I find Morgan sguil nce. I must discharge if the arrest was illegal i right to resist Morgan i Peace Envoys and f. Cope you can go suspended sentence 16 Crown he agrees uilty and in police ‘"‘No, nor oneâ€"quarter of them, nor have the other grocers. All the grocers in town have been shipping large quantities of eggs all winter. Thousands of dozens have been shipped." Besides the large shipments made by the grocers, the local office of the N. P. G. has also been shipping large quantities of eggs brought in by the members of the company. Other shipâ€" ping points of the N. P. G. have also been handling eggs during the winter. Whether the hens in other parts of Ontario are in the same productive mood as the Fruit Belt hens, we do not know but Biddy has certainly been doing more than her share in this district. Such was the rather surprising statement of a local grocer to The Inâ€" dependent, last week. "As a usual thing," he continued, "the grocers and butchers have had to depend upon cold storage eggs and eggs from the wholesalers to supply their trade. In fact from fifty to sixâ€" ty per cent. of the eggs handled in past winters have had to be secured fromâ€" outside, but this winter it seems that every hen in the Fruit Belt both below and above the mounâ€" tain has been working overtime. I have not had a cold storage or an outâ€" side egg in my store the past four months or more." Have you been able to use all the eggs that have been brought to your store? ‘""Not in years has there been plentiful a supply of eggs in Grimsby Fruit Belt, as there has 1 this winter." Not in Years Have Fruit Belt Hens Produced so Prolificallyâ€"Cold Storage Eggs Only a Memory EGGS HAVE BEEN PLENTIFUL He is survived by. one son,. w. Edâ€" gar Hewitt, of Glendale, California, and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Wouters, Grimsby, and Mts. <G. B; Fleming, â€" of Glendale, _ California. His wife predeceased him about â€" a year. In religion the deceased was an Episcopalian and in politics a Liberal. He was a member of Nilestone Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of London. The funeral is taking place to Queen‘s Lawn Cemetery today. The deceased gentleman was the last surviving member of a latrge familyâ€"four boys and four girls. They were: John, William, Simeon and Thomas C., Mrs. Andrew Carpenter, Mrs. Marshall Bancroft, Mrs. Harry Bridgman and Mrs. Thomas â€" Gagan, Sr. His son, Edgar, came on from Caliâ€" fornia a short time ago andâ€" spent a couple of weeks at his father‘s bedâ€" side. ;He .eached home at Glendale, California, the morning that his father passed away. « d Thomas C. Hew‘tt Had Reached 78th ‘Milestoneâ€"A Resident of Grimsby Since Boyhoodâ€"Well Known and | Highly Respected. About fifteen years ago Mr. Hewitt gave up business in Chicago and came to Grimsby to reside, spending the summers here and the winters â€" in Venice, California. While on a trip from Venice to Alaska, in 1923, he was taken ill at Vancouver, B. C.. and _ ho has been confined to his room almost continuously up to the t‘qe of his death. MOnReveluis c B. C. and the balance at the home of his daughter. The late T. C. Hewitt was born in 1846 at Beechwood, near Woodstock, Ont., and was the youngest â€"son of Thomas Hewitt and Mary Combaught. He came with his family to Grimsby at an early age and attended the Grimsby school until he was seventeen. He was a travelling salesman in Canada and the United States for many years, residing in Brantford and Lonâ€" don. In London he took an active part in municipal politics and was a memâ€" ber of the Water Commission and city council several years. After leaving London he resided in Grimsby a year and a half and then went to Chicago in 1892 where he joinâ€" ed his brother John, who just at that time had purchased a controlling inâ€" terest in the Michle Printing Press Manufacturing Company, which afterâ€" wards became so successful financialâ€" 1y. In 1893 the brothers built and ran the Colonial Hotel, which was the headquarters for Canadians during the World‘s Fair. LAST OF FAMILY PASSES AWAY Mr.â€"_T. C. Hewitt, one of Grimsby‘s best known and most highly respected citizens, passed away at Deer Park Farm, the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Wouters, on Monday, May 12th, 1924, at the age of 78 years, after an illness of about eight months, part of which time was spent in Vancouver CGRIMSBY BIGAMIST SENTANCED FATHER OF GIRL CASTIGATED USE SE OUR COLUMNS <up 0 â€"<m0â€"0 <upâ€"0 â€"<ue 0â€"<m> 0 «un 0 â€"<mâ€" eggs in the there has been _ to supply fifty to sixâ€" handled in be secured s yoniaâ€" tirip 1923, he was C and _ ho room almost ‘19 of his _ _yancouver, the home of Ccame ~to daughter Grimsby, a change <m>â€" 0â€"<meâ€" 0 <meâ€" (6 4 S $2.00 Per Yearâ€"5 Cents a Copy On conclusion of the auditor‘s reâ€" port it was announced that the entire amount of arreared taxes had been placed in the hands of Mr. Vance for collection. amounted to $21,388.32, and the unâ€" paid Hydro accounts totaled $1,â€" 746.71. ‘The receipts amounted to $35,033, of which $19,100 had been borrowed on four notes, leaving acâ€" tual receipts from other sources of $15,933. Included in the latter amount was $6,960, arrears of taxes; $5,565, debentures sold and $3,139 governâ€" ment road grant. The collectors roll for 1923 showâ€" ed a total received of $112,941, and of this amount only $1,967 was for arrears in taxes. The expenditures for January, Febâ€" ruary and March totaled $34,359, which included $26,836, repaid loans; $2,429, expended on roads; $132, elecâ€" tion costs, and $1,631 expended on charity. M. W. Matchett, Saltfleet township auditor, submitting a report for the first three months of this year, before Saltfleet Council, stated that the unpaid taxes,. including arrears, amounted to $21,388.32, and the unâ€" paid | Hydtro <accounts . tntalan &1 _ Au SALTFLEET HAS UNPAID TAXES missing bottles had been taken the house. The Magistrate gave well the benefit of the doubt and missed the charge. being on Caldwell Mr. Pepler, for that the liquor wa chased in Jordan Before sentencing Caldwell gistrate stated that he at leas marry Miss Konkle under fa tenses, that his marriage was and he had the consent of th and mother of Miss Konkle. A charge against Caldwell ing liquor elsewhere than in private dwelling was dismisse vincial Constable McKay tes finding nine bottles of wine i in the rear of, CalwAalH‘s aaw ‘"‘The whole upshot of this case is that Mr. Konkle by his loose and careâ€" less manner practically ruined his daughter‘s career," declared Police Magistrate J. H. Campbell in court on Thursday in sentencing Clifford Caldâ€" well to imprisonment for not less than six months and not more than two years less one day. uditor‘s Report Shows $21,338 Ou standingâ€"Uncollected Hydro Acâ€" counts Amounted to $1,746â€" Government Road Grant $3,139 "Well, you‘ve another thought comâ€" ving," the Magistrate stated. ‘"You are worse than he. You knew he was married and could not marry â€" again. Why did you let your daughter â€"keep company with him and marry him? ‘"That is a little faultâ€"â€"" "It is not any little faullt, ‘it is 3 great big fault. Why did YOot not inâ€" sist upon seeing his separation paâ€" pers?~© Were you anxious to get" your daughter off your hands?" fr uk ‘"No." You must have been to rush her off into marriage with a married man. How old is your daughter ?" "Eighteen." ‘"Well, you are a good and wise faâ€" ther alright. <â€" No wonder girls go wrong these days if many parents are like you." plied good and a wi: trate remarked. "I think that ie stated he had heard, his wife was procuring a divorce and thought he was safe in marrying again. J. H. Konkle, of Beamsville, father of Pearl Konkle, stated that Caldwell was a hard worker and a good citizen. He was under the impression Caldwell had secured separation papers. "I suppose you think vou ara a Declared Worse Than Man Who Married His Daughterâ€"Was Aware of Previous Marriageâ€" Thought Grimsby Man Was Getting "Separation Papers". 2 Ju UIUG not seerlt two week fore?" the Magistrate queried. ‘"No," was the reply. Were in Beamsville Caldwell and his first wife mo Beamsville in the spring of 1921 wife leaving in September of He stated he had heard, his wife procuring a divorce and thoug! wasâ€"sate in ‘marrtinc .‘ armnsn was not a happy one. mistake two weeks after Caldwell\ stated. ‘"‘You did not see fore?" the Magistra "NO." wWas tha ra is â€" cA 4 MmItted going: through a form of marriage in St. Catharines on December 13th with Pearl Konkle, of Beamsville. He declared that he was first married in 1920 when twenty years of age to Lilly Smith, aged 17. The couple resided in Ottawa for about 18 months, but the marriage was not a happy one. ‘"We saw our mistake two weeks after it happened," PVA a L q e o o C Sln aem ces No Wonder Girls G rge against Caldwell of hayâ€" or elsewhere than in his own dwelling was dismissed. Proâ€" Constable McKay testified to nine bottles of wine in a case ear of Calwadell‘s car, the car Six Months or More aiuweIl s property. er, for the defense, argued juor was part of a case purâ€" Jordal} and that the three Pages 1 to 8 1ienCing Caldwell, the Maâ€" ed that he at least did not Konkle under false preâ€" his marriage was known the consent of the father of Miss Konkle. wise father the spring of 192‘1-,”t1;; i1 September of 1922 way 0â€"<mp 0â€"ame 0â€"m» c been taken into Mr. Konkle reâ€" xo Wrong gave Cali 338 Outâ€" you are a the: Magigâ€" moved to