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Anttropologists in Canada are
all excited over the discovery
during the construction of the
Royal York .Golf course, Toronto,
of a finely preserved bronze axe
head, still capable of doing hefty
work in the hands of a determined
man. Some believe that it is an
Indian implement, but many more
say it is an authentic relic of the
Bronze. Age, perhaps a sc9re of
thousand years old and going back
to the dim beginnings of humanity.
Beautifully balanced and still quite .
sharp, the years have left their
traces on the axe and there are
even to be seen markings where
leather strips bound it to the han-
dle. Within sight of a great city
where once Indians prowled and
long centuries before them, primi-
tive men fought with monsters, the
place where it was picked up will
soon be the scene of golfers teeing
off or negotiating difficult -bunk-
ers. The course will be open for
play next Spring.
YEAR AGO
or. Bro. L. H. Dickson on
installed the officers
orest Ledge as follows:,
on, W. J. Murray, J. E.
y, N. J. Dore, J. A. Ste -
Creech, Rev. D. W. Col-
ngs, WIJ. Beer, H. J.
Christie, F. E. Willis,
au.
Pickard, of New Ontario,,
mother here for Christ. -
the S,ta
a4Virginia to spend a few weeks on
..c'husiness.
• The Reeve, Council and School
Truitees ss'ere all elected by acclam-
" ' tier. Reeve W. Ja Taylor.; Coun-
cillors, J. R. Hind, B. W. F. Beavers,
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ME =TU. TIMES -ADVOCATE
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.R.,5 YEARS Aq.0
Mr. Chas. Dennis, who has been
engaged in a store at A.rkoua, has re-
signed his position owing to a sev-
ere attack of rheumatism •and ie now
Confined to the home of his parents
here.
lair, James Sweet jr., who has-
been residing in the West for the
past seven years and of late at
Grand Rapids, Dakota, arrived home
Saturday night god will spend a few
weeks with his sweats, Mr. ,and Mrs.
James Sweet.
The following are the .officers
ju-
atalled :at he annual installation
• meeting of the A.F. & A.M. held on
,Monday night: W. C.. :Huston, W. J.
_• Heaman, Thos. Fisher, Win. Sweet,
S. O'Neil, C. a -Senders, W. W. Ta-.
man, W. R. Elliott, J. A. Rollins, F. -
J. Wickwire. and S. Sweet,
A somewhat unusual and very
. pleasant gathering assembled in the.
Thatnes-RORd. Presbyterian Church,'
Monday evening. This .was the oce
• casion of the twenty-fitth anniver-
sary of the marriage of Rey. and
• Mrs. Fletcher. The Thames Road
.congregation presented Mrs. Flet-
cher with a well-fillee purse, while
the Kirkton congregation' had a
handsome new sleigh, robes and
harness at the church door and car-
ried the groom and the bride out,
Placing them in the sleigh and draw-
ing them around ,amidst much en-
thusiasm.
• Mr, W. 11. Parsons, who' hitt here
some few years ago for Edmonton,
Alberta, has sold out his business In
the West and hes returned. with his
family to Berlin, Ont., where he has
taken up residence.
!Mrs. Wm. O'Brien of the ,3rd Cone
Hay, while going around the back.
yard, Saturday .morning, slipped on
the icy ground and had the misfora.
tune to break Iter leg.
T. Harton and Dr. B.oelston. The
School Trustees, S. Martin, F. Wood
and R. N. Creech.
Usborne Council was also elected
by acclamation, Reeve, Fred Eller-
ington; Councillors, John Duncan, A.
Mitchell, Thos. Brock and William
Coates.
Biddulph Township Council was
re-elected by acclamation and .six
were nominated for the council, Eli
•Hoegins, Eli Thompscoa,..K.,Maesapse
S. H. Hodgane..-iftar."*Dewan and Tim,
.L Aker -
Mr. Ern Rivers, who has been with
an engineering survey. with headquar-
ters at JaspersAlta., has returned to
his home here Icor the winter.
Mr. John Dearing, of Flint, Mich.,
is visiting with his mother and other
relatives in and around Exeter. •
Fire Chief W. D. Weekes has -re-
ceived the usual notice at this season
of the year calling attention to the,
danger to life and property from the.
Christmas decorations,. such as
eries, augnejava-essia5arsvairlta-ea
gl'aiir„ etc, Displays of this nature,
and the lighting arrangements in
connection therewith, add very con-
siderably to the. .ordinary risks of
fire. A few simple precautions may
reduce the danger to a minimum,
Rua thee should be considered es-
aential where large numbers. of
people and particularly children are
to be gathered.
CHRISTMAS ON SPANISH MAIN
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Christmat tin the Spanish Main will be celebrated
-this aver by passengers on the Canadian Pacific liner,
Duchess of Bedford, with English Manor House
'emehial :rot the first time, in the history of the sea.
re Will be a jester With cap ami bells Who Will
,etsvale in the barons of beef and boar's head and other
mighty dishes that, will Take up the good cheer
While there Will be a procession Of medievally
costumed servitors in the most approved historical
, Manner.
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• Paescrigers �t the 16.,4ay Christmas and New Year
'holiday cruise to the NVest Indies made annually by
athis vessel will not onht be tile audience of the first
red eld.fashioned Chrietniati celebration in these
tam Int many of them will Ms° be actors 111 the
fUnction. The Duchess of Bedford will leave New
• "Birk December 28:
There will, of course, riot be forgotten n gigantic
Christmas pudding over and around which the weird
blue of burning brandy will cast an uncanny rediance.
The bowl of wasS'ail, preceded by two pursuiVants and
accompanied by the court jester will go the round
Of the guests in one. of the most popular of old-time.
ClikiStill as observations,
Among the guests there will bo Randolph' Crowe,
well-known operatic baritone Who added to his laurels
as '"John the Butcher" in Dr, Vaughan Williams'
"Hugh the Drover", prize fight ballad opera and whose
North American premiere was recently given at the
English Polk Dance ].'estival at Toren -ter. Further,
theft will bo inembers of the N'ew York Folk Danco
Soeietywhile datol singing, "Waits", a Christmas
ofdBali, English Folk 1)6,11Ce8 and songs and Many
other featt4rescWili make the trip -unique,
014 Age ,Pensie.n.
The Old Age Pension Committee
of Heron -County Council reported
as follows:,
At the last meeting of the Legis-
latare of Ontario, the Government
adopted the•principle of the ,Old Age
Pensions System as proposed by the
Dominion Governmeot, and Assumed
.r,o per cent, of the obligation that
such enactment would impose upon
this Province.
By this legislation also, it was de-
cided to grant pensions of $20 per
month to each persen, male and fe-
male, who had reached the ago of
70 years or over, who were British
subjects by birth or naturalization,
and had resided in Canada for the
twenty years preceding the applica-
tion, and in Ontario tor five years
of these 20, and made other regol-
Wiens as to means or lack of means,
so that only those who were really
in need of help could qualify. By
this Act also the Dominion assumes
50 per cent. of the pensions grant-
ed, the Province 30 per cent, and the
County 20 per cent., so that for each
pensions granted the county pays
$48, the Province $72 and -the Do-
minion $120.
The Act also provides for the
members of Houses of Providence or
of Houses of Refuge the same priv-
ilege as enjoyed by other citizens of
accepting these pensions and of leav-
ing these institutions, or of remain-
ing as inmates and assigning their
pensions to the county for their keep
and attendance.
At the June meeting of the County
Council, a committee, composed of
Messrs. Henderson, Higgins, °Craigie,
Kennery and Hubbard, was appoint-
ed to carry out the scheme in Huron.
This committee met for organization
'on 'the 16th of July and appointed
Mr. Henderson, chairman, and Co.
Holman, secretary. The report now
presented is to the 1st of December.
The Committee at the meeting di-
vided the. county into five districts,
appointing each member of the com-
mittee to look atter one of these
districts; This waVfound absolute-
ly necessareelViig to the, rase -that
stieseentvatneTiecter-hticf4eein appoint -
.ed as in the case of the MotheW Al-
lowance Act, it was found impossible
for the members of the committee to
discharge their duties thoroughly
without having or obtaining in each
case as complete information as was
possible. This could not • be done
without each being aesignetle a cer-
tain district as was. proposed. .
These districts were: MT. Higgins,
Exeter, Usborne, Stephen, .Hay, Hen -
sail and Stanley; Mr. Xennedy,
Tuckersmith, Seaforth, Mullett and
• MeXillop; Mr. Craigie, Goderich,
Go5derich Township, Clinton, Col-
borne and Ashfield; Mr. Henderson,
Morris, East Wawanosh, West Wa-
• wanosh, Blyth and Wingham; Mr.
Hubbard, Grey, Howick, Turnberry
and Brussels.
It was further arranged that all -
applications' should come or be sent
to the Secretary, who was • to enter
the names and chief particulars in
a register and who was also to do all
correspondence, prepare all applica-
tions for signature of the chairman
and for submission to the central
authorities all the necessary clerical
work of the committee.
The committee has. slime its or-
ganization received and dealt with
423 applications, nearly every one of
which had to be investigated by one
of the committee and reported up-
on before being finally dealt with:
OE these 423 the committee recom-
mended 357 and of those recommen-
dea, only 6 were refused 'by the cen-
sions of $20 per month; 36 were for
some lack of evidence or the time
stipulated in the Act. Of those re-
commended, 210 wore for full pen-
sions og $20 per Month; 36 were for
Part pensions tonging from $120 a
pear to $165 depending upon their
other resources. The -average pen-
sion granted was for $18.85 per
month, so that the 306 granted will
receive a total payment of $5,77L75
per month, or $69,261.00 per year,
and the payntents of this total will
be bOrne as follows: ---Dominion of
Canada, $44,630.50; Ontario Gov-
ernment $20,778,30; County ef Hu-
ron, $13,852.20, and we presume
that these totalswill gradually les-
sen from year to year as the great
number now in excess of 70 years
will cease to be charges and their
places will be taken, or the number
of pensioners will increase from
year to year by those just reaching
70. This seem reasonable to cal-
culate on, as the total number of
those applying this year the ages of
the applicants ranged all the way
from 70 to 97 years, so that it is
reasonable to expect that the do -
crease th claimants for the heat few
years will be very' much larger than
the inerease,
The cost of the introditetien of
the pension schethe in Ontario and
In each county has been Very Much
more than was anticipated, as it Wee
announced that the respectivesgove
arnmente concerned intended paying
tbo east of achilliiistratien of the Aet,
but apparently this wes tot intended
to include the Initiol cost fn the
• mantles, but only the cost of carry
fug outthe Act as to printing and
the emit of the Valli:lite commissions
entrusted with the .work at head-
quarters, The cost in itbe ootinty is ,
not large when the trouble, respell-
affinity and work invoved 18 taken
into consideration, T11
0 all ett.:iV,4
in the IntaoductiOn of any new
scheme or place of public utill4,„,
Initial cost is the main expenditui. ,
and it is :8are to enc.:lade that It ins
been many times larger than may be
anticipated in carrying ont the Act
in tho future, and the same may be
concluded to he true regarding the
work Involved.
-Had the PensionS A(t been thole
ouglay understood and tally those ec-
qoainted with 'business methods and
transactions concerned, the werk
would not be nearly eo great, but
W]1011 it is known that by far the
greater number of applicants who
tried to complete their own applica-
tions were over 80 years of age, and
very unfit to perform such a -teat,
one con readily understand the 1n3 -
perfect state in which, during the
first stages, the applications wore
sent in and the work involved was
very great 111 malting the same pre-
sentable to the criticai minds of the
auditors or representatives of the
respective Governments, who were
only concerned about figuring out
the financial obligations these appli-
cations Implied.
But that the committee succeeded
fairly well in the task is evidenced
by the few turned back ot the large'
number passed Mid sent forward and
the proof that those in eharge at the
central office were alert, .is evidence
ed by the fact that the very smallest
defects in the applications were die,
covered. •
The experience gained by your
committee and all those having the
responsibility of administering the
Act, will be of great service to those
intrusted with the task In the future,
for no 'doubt many difficulties en-
countered by them will be smooth-
ed out by amendments to the Act,
which will make it loss trouble to,
•Carry out. The comMittee wishes to'
thank the Municipal clubs, convey-
aucei•s, notaries public and the many
others who came to the rescue of the
old people in helping them to make
their applications more' acceptable in
the later Proceedings in carrying out
the Act.
'The Committee is of the opinion
that it is an opportune time te
i32'
out or call attention„,aeroatikfeatures
bronalit -daut-irt' this initial work that
might well be the subject of improve-
ment 01' amendment.
We recommen,d that as the trouble
of investigating and °preparing ap-
plications i s really a work assisting
the Government in carrying out the
scheme, the DOminfoll and Provin-
cial Governments be petitioned to
bear the cost or assist the county es7
pecially in the initial cost,, of carry-
ing out or introducing the Pensions
Act. •
We are of the opinion that the as-
signment of property ,should not be
insisted on as part of the obligation'
enabling applicants to obtain a pen-
sion and we recommend that It be de-
leted from the scheme or used only
in special cases to be .determined
from -the facts in each case.
The residence strictures are too
•eramped and not liberal enough to
be applied to these old . people. It
should not be the concern of the
Dominion Province or county if
poor old mother or father, too poor
'and feeble to maintain themselves,
sees fit to board around with their
family, even if it takes them out of
their native province part of the
time. So long as they have resided
in Canada the stipulated twenty years
and draw only one pension should be
enough.
We recommend that this stipula-
tion be made more liberal so long as
• the Province reciprocate.
The Act also goes too far in con-
ferring of freedent of citizenship up-
on those who have been committed
to the care Etna keeping of the Co.
and have been made wards in the
House of Refuge. We claim that the
conferring of pensions should not in-
terfere with the power of the county
council regarding them as wards and
under its control and that the county
should still have the power of in-
sisting that anyone taking one of
these inmates should give bond for
their safekeeping and that the money
assigned them will be held properly
in their interest and that they wilt
reteive good homes.
Wo also recommend that the limit
for those totally disabled shoulti'be
reducedto 65 years or lese, this to
be applied for the benefit particular-
• ly •of returned soldiers. We have
been brought face to face with sem-
eral sad eases of permanent disabil-
ity, where the patient is blind and
perfectly helpless, without means of
help only what friends. or faithful
relations can offer, who have not
reached the qualifying age. 01' course
such a stipulation will entail great
responsibility and care to enforee,
yet we tire of the opinion that if cer-
tain companies, and corporations
think, sixty-tive years is the limit of
usefulness to the, that age should
not be too low to set as a limit for
pension when Wel disability is prov-
en by medical certifleate,
'We also call attention to the mat-
ter of the giving of pensions to the
meinbers or Inmates of the House of
'Refuge, These people aro unable of
leansaathig .business and owing to
this enfeebled,condition Mentally and
physically, should not have any chola°
as to leaving the institittien with-
out the leave and consent of the
county, and that'tho pensions should
bo paid direct to the county to be by
its authority used for their keep or
give them if they decide to de so.
That in be ettee should they be given
pensions to do with as they please
except in •CatOiA where stiltiAle places
can be found for thein.
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