HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-06-01, Page 4rl
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tent topics to be dealt with by the
association, will be the eeeuriun, of
prohibitory legislation in Ontario, as
far as it is within the jurisdiction of
the Local Legislature, and electoral
action for the scouring of legislators
who are favorable to prohibition,
Town council,
The regular monthly meeting of the
town council was held on Siouday
evening last. Present—R McIudoo,
Mayor ; T Gregory, Reeve; and
Councillors Messrs Neelands, Agnew;
Smyth, 1-iolmes, Sperling, Brocken.
shire, Aoidstrson, Dawson, Cline, The
minutes of last regular and special
meetings were read and approved.
penditure of $1000 on it, could
made to answer ever purpose for
years. Then it could be used for
market house. The town could E„
ground for a town hall at any tint
but not for a market. He was not i
favor of raising money to put up a
monument. Eight thousand dollars
had been voted to put up and finish
and furnish the hall complete, and it
was not right that the council should
exceed that amOunt.
Dr. MaodoectIcl thought the town
was in need of a hall and voted .for the
by.law for $8000. He uuderstood
that that sum would pay for the hall,
put in a vault,heating apparatus, and
seat it; in fact, that$8000 would he til1
the money required for building the
hall and paying for plans, removal of
buildings, inc. He felt certain it will
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Mr j Cline, chairman, of Fire and cost at least $10,000 before the hall is
'Water, Committee reported that the, ailly completed. Ile was in favor of
putting in of fire alarm at Union Fac- a completed town hall for $S000, and
tory was being attended to, The believed the ratepayers were also.
Fittance Committee reported, morn- Mr. John Hanna always considered
ertendinw payment of the following the town was in a good financial con.
acouna : Wm Garrett, gravelling B dition, and thought so still, notwith
line, $23.27 ; Chas Sinith, repairing standing the statement read by Mr.Mor-
bridge,S1.25; Geo Hughes, work on ton. He did not think it right and
streets, $5.02 ; `Dr Towler, telephone, proper that a committee of ratepeyers
25 cents ; A i, Carr, charity orders, should attempt to bulldoze or scare the
$2.40 ; 0 McCallum, $9 25; Assessor, council, He was sorry to see a dozen
Clerk and Mayor, selecting jurors, ratepayers try to pot their:foot on any
$12; Robt Mitten, wood for, town improvement for the town, He ' was
hall, $2.72; R Mclndoo, telegraph- always in favor of thatown hall, and
iug, 62 cents; Mrs Thompson, board- felt certain he could take a sub
ing tramps, $1; Thos Irwin, cemetery scription list and collect the $450 that
supplied, 60 cents; Thos Irwin, bury- the council had exceeded the amount
leg pauper, $2 ; F Hughes, work on voted in a few hours.
streets, $4.75; Ohas Barber, do, $0.88; Mayor Meade° said the ratepayers
; el -eau St Sou, lumber end cedar presenting the statement read were
bucks, $55.25 ; Jos Bullard, teano putting tile council in au awkward posi.
b
ine and wood, $12.70. The report was tion. Tho councillors were eltected to
adopted at d accoents ordered to he paid. their positions by the ratepayers to a°
The Committee appointed to confer their businesd for them, and he beget,.
with the Board of Trade re putting in ed theybe4 'been doing What they
gas worhs in Wingham reported in sub-
stance as follows, through the chair-
man, .Mr Neelands: We would recone-
t- mend that the 0ciuncil asssist any
' company building gas .worka in
"TATingliatu as follows: I. t That the
corporation take not less than 25
street lamps, at a cost :not exceeding
$14 per pris per year, for a term not
exceeding ten years. 2. That the
corporation grant a franchise of the
streets fer ten years to the company.
8. That the corporation assist in every
poshible way the completion of this
work, in the way of exemption of
taxes or in any other way thought
advisable. -
Mr Wile thought, the Coun-
el should move slowly • in. the
'natter,. and not hind . itself to any
system of lighting, as there were be-
ing great improvements made in
eke! ria lighting. '
• Mr'Neelancla said the committee'e
gecounnendations were for any cent-
. pany, either foreign or local, to put
to the Weeks.
Mr Or...leery was not in favor of
rueiting into any, contraet at . presetit.
The water power in Lower Town
• might be used as power for electric
light. Some ratepayers tvere iu favor
of electric light, tied they should be
.cousuIted.
Moved by J A Cin, seconded by
• Anderson, that the report of the
-Committee on gas righting received
t and laid an the table for consideration
at the next replier ineetingeaOtirried.
Mi vid by A --Cline, seconded by W
Brock oshire, that the sum of $12
be placed in the hands of (thief Petty- -Reeve, and Messrs Neelands,. Mae
piece as charity to Mrs Sadler. ---Car and Smyth, be appointed to
ried A communication was read look into the report of the committee
from:at/las Saint, asking for .eeneissiou froin.citizens and report to a special
°feller teetese—Laid over. --Mr, 11. - meeting of this council.
Mintage appeared before the Council ger 3 A aline was always in favor
reference to ,an alleged error of - of building a towu -hall for $8,000. In
4$500 in his -asscsatacat. On motion _ committee he opposed awarding the
• of W. Helmet', secornted by T. Agnew, contract because it exceeded $8,000
thc matter was referred to the mem- voted. IIe had not made himself.
".. herd of the Council who composed .the familiar with the town fluances, as be
last Court of Revision. A number conehlered the finance committee
ratepayers appeared before the Conn. quite capable of attending to that.
eil,,in , refer:teebit m to the emotion of .Did not tidthe finances g very
the new town hall. Itir. 3. A. Morton alareth,g condition,
:Tied a lengthy &Ameba giting the Mr. 13 Wi leen asked that a couis rho Aa
eabons bait' ratepayers why: the taittee be appointed is> look into the g'ven
erection .of the hate elieuld ant be matter, as ratepayers d move in It thou
- vette-tied with, 31.,a „Lio Coincourts
t• toe for an iot re
to preveot .11,10 1.
to take the eretentiente letnled
:ai. the expenditue rof re than at'8,000, might
Gm
ea the emel • itno ceeshi, realm] itir T mid.. those opposed to to tho 1
a
r. it. W hit
em tldramed the ('nun. humbug. the hall. had been Working -of the
nil, intintatiug thatif the Cowell go .segainet ever shoe. the motley woe 1 their g
-44% 1•44'•4"";lf the WAAL They haft lerougIit thtuat
e tet milt or
he 011
d he coati. at ..., . by what proceeds tllftt ULy
+y should continue this Itheir Wheat grotind at all, whether it Olititon the mane da
lien the people Wanted , is good or not. Now •one of the firm„ Mrs. Edwards wits
all Was in favor of goiag I, end I presume he is the writer a tiw twc, inagistrtcs.,
Id miller in tide locality swore that b.' si
10 work. tel
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et c r,
A Mortoo thought the coun- - and used to nth a grist will in which anemic 111 hhand
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monis el firma- femme- a 1000.0
ian ad Muiboa hard „wheat as they stilt thee a we t yea
ould for their trent wheat testing 54 'ara of Mrs. Whitely—LUNY
pomade, is very ingenious ett the pert Edwerde, of Woodstoelt—aud. plaged
19t 'a/0 firtu, but i not to the point, in the hands of County Otmetahle
i for most farmersw be able ubL t see Paisley, who on Wedneeday served it,
't *et and the prisoner wawiterought
u Friday
t before
las Johnson
Whitely put
food on mole
as not a close corportion. • the grinding was done with stonesoutcl thou one oeeasion end that the heard
ratepayers were at liberty while in that capacity carped money itire. Whitely low it, wee no harm to
Oritioizo • their acts. If the for hie employer, only taking. one- kill such a man tire. Whitely or
nail expended more than the $8000 twelfth as toll for grinding each grist, xvi. navita*, WaS committed for
voted by the people they would hear Now when one-sixth is tolled for good trial -
from him personally, wheat weighing 60 pounds per bullet
Mr 13xoek•ensltiret3 motion appoint- and so on acoording to grade trail Cuirass.
jug a committee to look over the 'wheat weighing 52 pounds is tuned Mr, R. Marehall had the inisfor.
finaucial statement read by Mr Morton about one half and theu the rmere to
last week to lose a very vau-
was then put and carried uuaniraously. and others are told that wittier* don't eh e heifer, She by wine 'neap%
Moved by J Neeaucls, seconded by pay, there is evidently some truth iu uoknown broke her neck in the yard.
& Dawson, that the treasurer be in- the saying, for in the year 1888 there .— There are at present great
streoted to place $750 to the oeedit of was reported more than one hundred preparationsgoing on in the neighbor-
thcatichool Board, such $750 to iii- and twenty grist tains burned in this hood fur a matennoinal celebraton,
.etticte"the government grant,hefore the province,an evidence that aortae of but it is unsafe to give particularsjest
last teaching day of the year, for them was not needed, Bub what is yet —Mr.t'John. Ainliter's sale omen
teachers' salaries and other • purposes the use of discusaine the question fur. off 'alai splendid reults, heath%
-ace.rriecl. 1M.oved by Wm Smyth, their? The wheat cr-p has become John's expectations by several bun.
seeonded by R 0 Sperling, that the very deficieut, so much so that many dreddollars. 111r. Ambler is now a
Usurer be iustructed to prepare the femora have not enough for their own restileut of Witighem, intending to
auena,1 Statement of the town up use, arid that in many eases not yery take it eisy for the future, and while
the15th day of December, as re- good, so that if the millers got he and his partner are a great itoquisi.
qu ' ed by Statute, and that the said whOle crop, some of them would not tion to the town of AV -Ingham, their
std.temeut be publielied en pamphlet• 1 and the more wheat that far- 'nascence will he felt en the 2nd.—
fol. In—Carried.- The council then mers are trying to raise the poorer hlunieipal matters are the talk just
ad/peened till the - 16th inst. they are becoming in this -part of the now, and it is expected that we will
eountr• y. A. sad outlook for the mil. have a pretty lively time at the noun-
"weesrmer" repiics to INeSsrs. Mitt= & lers. The firm says that it is a fact nations.
Carr'sLetter. beyond dispute, that both millers and The directors of the Oulross ' Muth -
To t heEditor of tho Winghono TIMM, ' farmers are suffering from the unjust, al Fire Insurance Company met in
iniquitous and dishonorable tariff of ' the town hall, Teeswater, 30th Nev.,
DNASS, Srs,--1, wish to reply tto the the Dominien Government. net 1 1889. Members all present. presi.
let ,er of Hutton est Carr, millers, win not dispute, but to add more duty dent in the -chair. The minutes of
'oh a eared in your paper of Nov. nn flour, as the Millers' Association previous meeting. having been read
mid adopted, it was moved by Mr.
Reid, seconded by Mr. Little, that all • .
aPplioations for insurance be now
laid on the table for examination
—
Carried. Littte--McKague — That
haviug examined nine applications for
insurance, eight, or. them are found
satisfactory and the president and
secretary are instructed to prepare
and issue policies for same ; ono ape
plat (don to be returued to applicant
for reeducation — Carried. Clark —'
Little—That by-lew No. 16 be now
introduced and passed, baid by-law
for the purpose of authorizing the
raisiug of the annual levy for defray-
ing expenses in 1889 and 1890 mid
for increasing the reserve fund and
to be at the rate of one and one half
per cent on all live premium notes
held by the company at the 14th' of
November, 1889—Ca1ried. Bylaw
wits then read a first, second and t ,
1 third time, and passed, signed and
sealed. Little—Olarke-- That the
secretary be instructed to prepare and
issue postal cards to all members,
showing the amount of their assess-
ment and such other intimation as is
required by statute, also on same card
giying intimation of the annual
general meeting of members to be •
held in Teeswater town hall, on Sat-
urday, the 11th day of January, 1890,
at 1 o'clock in the afternoon,—Oarried. .A.rmstrong — Reid — That
policies Nos, 1346 and 1700 be can-
celled, and the secretary notify parties
interested,— Carried. Reid — Mc-
Kague—That this hoard do now
adjourn to meet again on the last
Saturday in Deceraber, in Teesetater.
town hall, at one o'clock in the after-
noon—Carried.L
MAADAMSON, Secretary. .
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considered in the best interests of the farm
town. The town expected to realize
from $300 to $400 of a premium on
the $8000 of debentures, which, with
$150.of unexpended money, the towit
received for the erection of a lockup,
. will be sufficient to pay the contract
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pries of the hall, $8450. Objection
was raised to using the premium reala
zed on debentures. He thought that
the objection would not hold good, hut
even if it did, the town could sell or
trade the debentures to the contractor
for the town hall. Was sorry the
ratepayers had brought up the matter
in this way, as it was introducing a
bad precedent in the' town. The peo-
ple voted $8000 for a hall and he was
prepared to go on with its erection.
Mr. T. Gregory said those opposing
the erection of the town hall were too
late in amino before the Council.
He was not in favor of the hall at first
bathe° one opposed it, so he fell in
with the scheme, and was in favor ef
trou
time
more
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going on 'with the building. The intent)
paltry sum of $450 was not. worth mess, ,
making a fuss about. The building about,
would be a credit and 'an ornament to writer
the town, of roll
Mr W FBroeken,shire was opposed able t
to letting tho,. contract for a larger says t
eum dem wan voted by the people. are gui
Now that the centred has been let, tion ar
he was in favor of going on with the was th
work. Ho would favor the appoint- as it w
went of a committee to look over the ed out
statement read by Mr Moan. which
It was then moved by Mr Brocken- smooth
shire, seconded by Mr Holmes', that a ters ati
committee, consisting of the Mayor, look in
credit
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d, setting forth the tanners has been petitioning fur, 1 am
vette° •or conipliiint • against the willing to eepport, because that woald
ler's Association of these counties. increase the price of flour to the pour
V, the word grievance mewls a farmers and others of this provinoe
ng suffered, an injury, and as a. and those provinces to the east of us
ner I believe this statement here that do not raise enough wheat to be
le to be true to the very letter, that self-sustaining. The flour is now $1.10
.ong has .beenelone to the farmers per barrel dearer in Wingliam than
ho rate of exchange used by the it used to be when wheat twits the
ers, members of the Association same price per busing, and I suppose
oma years past, tufting more toll that is for the superior quality of
watt right, for instance, take paper hagsafor the flour is not any
t testing 53 pounds to the bushel, better for bread making parposes
h would be 7 pounds less than the titan it was twenty years ago, before
awl, their rate of exchange is 25
the roller process was introduced. We
de of flour out of 60 P"nc18 oi, • have several of the old stock of millers
t -;with 12 pounds of bran and still at werlt, but a few will, hink
• making in all 87 peands for the there can be an improvement in them
and the miller takiug for his 'that is to be commended, for the rol
o 23 pounds which id four ler process was never gotten up for the
what the law allows and benefit of the farmers and consumers,
• which is one -twelfth only, but to be more profitable to the millers,
is 5 pounds in 63, and said because iteore -bur eau be taken from
as not been repealed in this a. given quantity of wheat, as is evi-
nce, Be it known unto all, denced-lay the poor quality of bran
he miller takes 60 pounds every and shorts. Do not tax any . more.
though the measured bushel There is a class that boasts of the'
only weigh -68 pounds. Nove, surplus that the present Government
ay over their own signature that are able to show by their doubliug the
ave withdrawn from the Assoda- tariff called N. P. . meaning "None
both loot and Dominion, for Poorer." They wish to persuade the
aeon that thetinillers would•not people that such accumulations are an
the farmers to their councils evidence of the general • presperity,
cuss the table of exchange. I quite ignoring the fact that unneces
rry there was nut a higher sary taxation upon articles, of general
e : "That of doing to others as consumption simply means taking so
ould have others do to them." much money out cf the people's
o doubt is an age of Associations paokets. Every. Canadian workingman
mbines, but the motive in the is poorer by reason of the surplus which
g of such is self-aggrandizement the protectionists contemplate with so
ght principle is . not diligently much eo,tisfaction. If oho people
after,houce they fail to be bene- really understood their own interests
• the public or instructive to the the Government would find it to their
're, and as for neighborly. kind advantage to say just as little as
which Hutton Ss Oarr speak possible about the amount of money
I think it is left outside. The realized by axes on imports, instead
lays great, strain on the owners of making a parade of it. Owing to
r mills in thid locality riot beiug our uusound system of taxation, a
grind the farmers' a
, riSt8'"", large revenue implies that so much
at those who prete
na to do SO money has been wrung: unnecemari)y
lty of the worst kind of decep- from the class least Ale in bear it
d lying; Now 001 believe The burden fulls mainly on the poor,
system adopted here as long while the rich, who as a rule consume
uld work, hente when it play- less in proportion to their wealth,
the association was formed, escape paying their quota. No, nil -
evidently • clt,es not work as . lees do not tax flour to keep it out of
Ly its its most sanguine promo• tha couutry.
icipated. It is surely an over. FARMER.
the welter that when lie claims December 2nd, 1880.
or the -scale of exchange adopt. •
followed by the firm now in
ettoderich Township.
pinion "fair, and equittble"
did net give the ohangus in About a your and a half .ago, Mr.
any) eince they withdrew from _ FT% 3. Whitely, of this township, died,
sociatiou, so that it might be and rumors were curreut that his
d. The farmers lotow the rate ' dtatli had been causally .poison being
aoge of the A.ssocietion to their adinnostered to him. 'equities were
t
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or,
Morris.
Large crowds attended the weekly"'
meetings of the Literary Society in .
S No. 7. The ladies are now taking
en Active part in. the debates and
leaving the boys generally in the idled°,
Glee Club is now organized and .
prospering favorably.—There is some -
talk of having a Christmas Tree Enter-
tainment for the children of the
school.—Miss Robertson will hold her
public examination on Dec, DAL—
Aggie McLean has been sick some
time with pleurisy —Nettie' Fiedlater
is recoveriug nicely freni her illness.
—Mr. Farrow has rented his farm
again to Mr. Chas Maguire.
The following, based upon recita-
tion, regularity, punctuality and good
nouduct, is the report of S leo. 7
for November: 4th class—Nellie That-
perttealarly this ye r, l made at the thee as to the enth or tan, Lille, Isbister. 3rd. Sr.—An-
the wheat is pot ep to the falsity of the rumors, but nothing to
d of 60 pounds. Those hat °Outbid° anyone having been brought drew Warwielt, Clime Maguire. 3rd.
weighing 52 punts to the ; to hglit, the matter was allowed to Jr.—Dm:stun IlcOleinont, May Mc
ill have to give about one ha 'f , (I)on. Last week a youug lady nam- Cly mord. 2ud Glass. --John Ishietert
educe for grinding the other, ed Minnie lobason, who resided at Lynn Finthater.—itlessrs. Isaac sod
to itroller mill belonging to Mr. Whitely's at the tune of his Amos Jewitt, who went up to Thes.
°dation. If bettor tortes ere death, made a statement to the effect, eaten, Algoma, to work, have retuned
,w, let it be known so that if .that poietin was adininititered to Mr. home. They 'report wages are very
d be reckoned just tied equit. Whitely with evil incept She 01- low ana work scarce.
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the .feriemi
ters, your tem lees diet her eonsci euee tr aide
ecteeee. The galeaeh given • her so she could us henget. keep secret.
tit of itaeiligenuo On the pert what alie knew. Wheu Mr, William. The Rt
farmers wile Windt; expect tt• likely, of Loncleeberu,. (brother to mist -don
• deceas, (. heard the circatustitn&
tiel eller,
be ground ia a re et
tto who would eanhet tVg, many etore of1) Mies Jelitetiou, lie procheatel
Clifford.
'v. 13 El Edwards will preach
services in • the Methodist
Clifford, neat Suoday, Dec..
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