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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-02-13, Page 7•w k JW EXETER tihwjwt, February’ i;l waa s> llllilHIIIIIIIlill CHAPTER I ij' In IVhlch the “Maid of Orleans” Leaves for Boulogne and Folkston o imi ” iM “A'L “11 v ar...-, ui<? f-q, uiia ably auddon.” , given towards the And. Bo I “My dear lad,” he said with a grin, «llt «mugg}ciu^ (“you can't imagine the diplomacy I l had to use. i first of all suggested ' that we all four should go to Le Tou­ quet a proposal which was jurnpdd at by my devoted spouse, wrote you that masterpiece of du- 1 puicity.” ‘’Masterpiece It may have been, I laughed, “but it gave me brain fever trying to think of an excuse that would hold water.” What did jou finally cough up?” asked, ‘I wrote a letter to my lawyer,” lid, “and told him to write to me ! say he’d got some urgent bush t- ar..,-, t,. j given towards the upper two charm- ip the mat- too, golf, with two their USBQRW A HIBBERT MUTUAL | EIRE INSURANCE COMPANY I Head Office, Farquhar, Ont, President Vice-Pres. » 1^1 Sj.HQXJRK The Municipal Council Township of Usborne met at the Hall t in Elimville, on February the 1st, 1930 pursuant to adjournment with all the members of Council present. The minutes of Hie meeting held January 13th, were read and approv­ ed with the addition of the word “in­ elusion” after Lot la.^Con. 14 (snaw patrolman’s work) on motion of Shicr-Wcstcott. Correspondence—Notice from the Globe Indemnity Co., with release attached, of the settlement of Thos. Brock’s claim of $74.40 against the Township for damage to ear, by the payment of $40.00, Received from Fnllarton Township a cheqpe for $30,00 in payment of Engineer’s fees on Silas N. Shier D. & W. Course Award; also 45c. bal­ ance due Usborne on FuJlarton Bdy, work. Received from the Treasurer of Stephen Township a cheque for $45.- 38 Ju settlement of Boundary work. Also 50c./ 1 voters’ List sold to D. Fraser, London, Ontario Municipal Association re membership fee. tabled. Letter Highway Department re Tp. Road Superintendent! noted. The deputation to interview u Chartered Accountant;reported that. Mr. Frank Gibbs, of Stratford, had been enrioyed to audit the 1929 Tp, Accounts, work to be done if possible in February. Action confirmed by resolution. Rev. L. C. AVhite interviewed the council re the case -of Mrs. J, John; of Elimville and family, who are straitened circumstances. Dew-Williams: That the load coal already delivered from R, ____ u Seldon be paid for. Carried, and had belonged to his father I Resolution from Bank of Mont- randfathor before him. The'real 110t5nS the change of Township live’d there with his > Treasurer was passed and the seal at- . tached on motion of Westcott-Shjer, By-law No, 1, 1930, confirming I the appointment of Municipal 01'- "For light cakes keep moist for days, tables* spoon less percu||pFPuricyiF your recipe call r ordinary pastry or soft > t hour," I “The next solution that presented . itself was mat it wasn t a genuine f signal at all, but the vzork of some ' hoy with a developed film sense joke inspired by Cowboy’s Terror, that sort. And I fell asleep. “The next morning I was up early. A mist was .lying over the- Marsh 5vhich lifted after a while, and I took a squint over my two matches. They, of course, gave me the bight direction,but not elevation. That I h-ad to guess, As I’ve told you, there ar« very few houses about, and there was only one through which the line of my patches passed. -Moreover, as far as I could judge, though things look very different by day to what they do at night, that house gave me ‘approximately the right el­ evation. iSo I went downstairs and focussed my telescope on it. “It was, as I expected, an ordin­ ary farmhouse. There seemed to be a couple of outhouses and four or five biggish trees. Moreover, the whole property stood isolated by it­ self, like a little island rising out of the lake. As far as I could judge, it stood about a quarter of a mile, from the main road between Rye and New Romney, and was connect­ ed to -it by a rough track. I could see no sign of life, until the front door opened and a woman with a pail in .her band came out and went into one of the outhouses. In every respect a peaceful country scene. “However, I waylaid the postman that morning and got some more in­ formation from him. It appeared that the place was known as Spragge Farm. It belonged to a man of that, name, t and grandfather present man 1___ ____ .... __ wife, and, I gathered Avas not aj popular individual. He... was surly and morose, and had the reputation ... . ,of being a miser. Apparently il0 Heers tor 1930 and fixing salaries for wqs quite well off, but lie refused to • ^mG re™.„a.nd Passed on mo- keep a -servant, making his wife doj' ~ all the menial.work. He had a ter-1 ■ocious temper,’and on two.or throe occasions had been run in before tho loq^i.1 Bench for actual physical vio­ lence to one of his farm hands, the result being that now he could not; get no one to> work for him. Fol-' lowing up my Btw......... xif he had any children, and was told ^Or ie destruction ot labbits, which that he hadn’t. But, I gathered, he have become a menace to vegetation occasionally took, in a lodger who' an^ ,a »eneral^ nuisance to the com- wanted rest and quiet. I further (111 Harried............................. gathered that the usual duration of the said lodger’s stay was not ex­ tensive, as lie got neither rest nor . quiet for his money. I asked it he j had one now, but tlie postman could. 1 not tell me. ,He hadn’t heard of one, “! Hl, f tliJm •3t»t‘i!1 wern'a TJ'hvn-i wnen’t r»,i the .decidingfactors 'that led me to, iri. te I then h I ,1 A ’Dandy Dick-”—the or something of living it at that, I sa and nosy on my dear old grandmother's will, Sounded a bit thin to me, I confess, but, by the mercy of Allah, it went down. And Molly was deuc­ ed keen to go.” “So, bless her, was Phyllis,” ans­ wered Hugh. “Thin or not, Peter, it worked. For a few days we are going to bo bache­ lors. And much ."may happen in a few days.” “As you say,” I agreed, “much may happen in a few days. At the same time, you haven’t answered my first question. Is it Irma?” “It is not, bless her. Maybe an­ other time, for I should hate to lose, her. But this time; it’s something quite new, quite new,” He drained his tankard and press­ ed the bell. “We will have the other half sec­ tion, while I put y.ou wise. Mark you, Peter, it may be the most hope­ less mare’s nest, and if it is we can always play golf. But somehow other I don’t think it is. In fact, my own mind, I’m quite certain isn’t. You don’t know this part the world at all, do you?” . “Not a bit,” I said. ‘ “Well, the first thing to do is give' you a rough, idea of the lie the land. Once we leave Hythe we come to a large stretch ,of absolute­ ly flat country which is known as Romney Marsh. The word ‘marsh’ is a misnomer, as the soil itself is quite hard and gives very good graz­ ing. There are a few villages dott­ ed about, iand an odd farmhouse or. two, but the prevailing note is soli­ tude. Motor charabancs cross it daily from Hastings and Folkstone, apd the roads are'good but a bit nar^ row. But it is. a solitary sort of place for all that; you feel that any­ thing might happen on it. “A few centuries ago it was cov­ ered by'the sea, which came right up to the foothills, so that all of Rom- new Marsh is reclaimed land. (And from those hills you get the most, marvellous view away towards Dun­ geness and Lydd—if you lil? type- of view, that’s to say.. free, with the tang of the sea wind. I love it; which was the Best ,fpr Bread in stamps for the famous iiy plour Cook Booh. estern Canada Flour Mills Co. Limited, Toronto. 94. ANGUS SIN ROBT. N ELL SIMON. FRANK McC 1RECTORS LAIR, RRIS, AGE JOHN ESS^RY, G Us Hili! of those who insist on a love story will be dashed to the ground. They must have received a pretty severe jolt when this matter of husband and wife was alluded to, though a few of the more optimistic ones may have hud visions of a divorce loom­ ing somewhere, or even a bit of slap and tickle. Sorry:nothing doing. So if this is the mutton of my restaurant analogy you know what to do, But don’t forget this book weighs as much as “Pansy, or thq, Girl who Lost AU for Love,” and will do just us much damage to the aspidistra if you hit it, Another thing, which it does not concern is On that fact, I must admit •shame and sorrow that these miserable men had deceived trusting wives, 'The larger iand more nefarious of the two had actually addressed his partner in crime at breakfast that morning on the sub­ jects of -handicaps and niblicks and things, and what they were going to do during their l’ow days at Rye. His eyes had when he helped himself to marma­ lade had been steady. lie dr—the. dirty dog—he lied. And his companion an vice knew he had lied, though, to his everlast­ ing shame, he said no word. Both of these scoundrels allowed their wives to leave them for a perilous sea voyage with a falsehood ringing in their ears. Which shows you the type of men you’re dealing with. However—that’s that: I’ll get on with it. Still not given the pointer? Oh! read the darned book and find out for yourself. I will take the larger one first. His height was a shade over six feet in his socks: his breadth and depths were in proportion. Which, in boxing parlance, entitles him to be placed among the big men. And big he was in every sense of the word. His face was. nothing to write home- about, iand even his wife ad­ mitted that she o'hly used it to amuse the' baby, -anyway, lpoks don’t mat­ ter in a man. What does matter in his condition, and, reverting once more to boxing parlance, this man looked what lie was—trained to the last ounce. It has always been a bit of a marvel to me' how Hugh Drummond kept a sfil as 'he did, in view of his. .incredible capacity of lowing altj. Nevertheless, the bald fact remains that in the. matter of fitness he had all of us beat to a frazzle. I par­ ticularly wish to emphasize that fact, because I believe that this is the first occasion that one of his not twitched: his hand And yet he The “Maid of Orleans” drew slow­ ly away from the side. Leaning ever tho rail was the usual row of cross-Channel passengers calling out final goodbyes to their friends on ^L'^he quay, An odd Customs man or ^Lwo drifted back to thoir respective (Offices; the R.A.C, representative raised protesting hands to High Heaven because ene of his charges had departed without his triptyque. In fact, the scene o)r the’ depart­ ure of the Boulogne boat, and men­ tioned oply because you must start a story somewhere, harbour is as good a locality as any. Standing side by side on the quay were two men, who had been waving their hands in that shamefaced man- aier which immediately, descends on the male sex when it indulges-in that fatuous pursuit. The targets of their innocent pastime were two vo- anen, “’whose handkerchiefs had flut­ tered in response from deck. And since these ing Jadies do not come ter.again it might betas well to dis­ pose of them forthwith. They were, an short, the wives of the two men, departing on their lawful occasions to Le Touquet, there to play a little golf and lose some money in the Casino. "Which is vq.illy', all that needs to be said about them, ex­ cept possibly their last remark chant­ ed in unison as the ship began to move: “Novi mind you’re both good while we’re away.” •, “Of course,” answered the two men, also in unison. And here and now let us be quite •clear about this matter, ‘Before or­ dering a dinner the average man consults the menu. If his mouth is set for underdone beef with horse­ radish sauce it is as gall and worm­ wood to him to be given mutton and red-currant j'elly.t' Similiarly, , before reading , a book the average reader likes to have a pointer as to what it is about. Does it concern the Shiek of Fiction carrying off a beautiful white woman on his thor­ oughbred Arab; or doos it concern the S.liiek of Reality riding a don- 3iey and picking the fleas out of his burnous? Does it concern a Bol­ shevist plot'to .. blow up* the police­ man' on. point duty at Dover Street; or does it concern the meditations of 4in evangelical Bishop on the revised Prayer-Book? And honesty compels *me to state that it concerns none of (intimate friends has written these things, which is just as well for all .concerned.' But it occurred to me that, the parting admonition of those two carnring ladies might possibly be construed to mean that they feared their husbands would not be good during their absence. Far from it: such a thought never entered their heads. It was just .a confirmatory They were, or in it of to of e that Opeiiy, in* th- one hi of G. ; tiou of Dew-Williams. I Westcott-Williams: That the Mu­ nicipal Council of Usborne in session assembled, do hereby petition the Department of Game and Fisheries of the Provincial Parliament of Ontar­ io through their member, Mr. AV. G. wi xxxxh. ^vx-|Medd- M.L.A., for the furnishing of ■econd theory I asked!guu Hanses free for the year 193 0 ALLISON, I. BROCK him. Take,'for instance, the ordinary adventure with that woman, Irma, of Salisbury really about extra­ crazy Plain. Joe Dixon wrote tht, and Joe, good fellow though lie is, hardly knew Hugh at all. But fourteen, years have gone by since I first met him, in the front line near Arras, and in fourteen years due gets to know a ■man. From which it will be Inferr- .statement of a fact as certain as ed that I was the other of the two the presence of Nelson t Trafalgar nefarious scoundrels who had stood Square. ' waving to their-trusting wives from ■“Dear lambs,” ■one another as the ‘boat cleared the harbour, -iiave a few days' selves.” i imauuub ftvvuuuiWD uau. ouwm.■41 waving to their-trusting wives from they remarked to the quay. j Now, as will perhaps be remem- “it will do them good to bered by those who have followed golf, all by "them-. some of our adventures in the past, x * we got mixed up with a -bunch of However, I still haven’t given this J criminals shortly after the war. ...........................- T-heir leader was a man named Carl Peterson, who was killed by Drum­ mond in 'Wilmot’s gaint airship just before it crashed in flames. And that led up 'to the amazing happen­ ings on Salisbury Plain that I have already alluded to, when Peterson’s mistress kidnapped Drummond’s wife and nearly got the lot of us. But she escaped, and the first thought that had sprung to my mind on„get- ting Hugh’s letter was that she had reappeared again. Up till now I had had no chance of speaking to him privately, but as tho boat disap­ peared round the end of the jetty, I turned to him eagerly: “Whet's the game, Hugh? Irma on the scene again?” He held up fl protesting hand. “My dear Peter,” he- remarked, “•have yon noticed that the sun is in the position technically known as over the yardarm?” “And as the Governor of North Carolina said to his pal, let’s get to ’ I answered. “What about the vilion "It is n wonderful tthing - being married, Peter ly as we strolled along the platform “Mar ed at ‘ certain firmed ‘And for all of if; Lent.”1 “It is tho principle holds “Peter/’ ho two easy chair's In the lounge bjuiti has probably jumped to the tert that if was not entirely due to a desite to beat your’’ head off on Ry^' golf links that I engineered Hila liif.Ic uffialr at Le Touquet, ‘Walter two large tankards of ale.” ‘■Some such idea had dawned on pointer. And with it the last hopes Dyspepsia The Remorse of A Guilt/ Stomach A dyspeptic must be very careful of wiiat he eate, but how often something . tempting is placed before him that he ■•should, not eat, well knowing that if the does ho will suffer for it after, yet ■ho does not? hesitate.-’to partake freely of it and tortures himself. The quickest way to get rid of this terrible ailment is to take jhtty, tIs it v'hich regulates tlie, bowdls, promotes perfect digestion, tones nj? flic stomach, TOiikea pure blood, and porfedt ’. health and strength to 'Rip debilitated System, ' MjW. Oscar Obetz, K&iilWorth, Ont., writes;— “For st yeat’^ waS bothered with dyspepsia, .and tried all ldnds4 of jnedlcine. ■<<I was So bad I was afraid, fb feat. -'Tut after taking two.'bottles of Burdock f 3Mo0d * Bitter's I entt eat anything I like, X now fool Rne» and have had no iiinm attacks.” * . * Fat up only by tTIio T, Milburn Co.k Xtd.j Toronto, Ont/1 / Hotel?” ho said tltoughf ul ■vOllous,” I agreed, and gltfnc- liim sideways; there was a note in his voice that con- my suspicions. ‘ ' ho continued/; “it is goocl its to sacrifice something , i Juno/’ I answered, good/’ aid, as we' tell ’‘but into ‘your trails, Agent fat Biddulph r$, Munro, Agent ta? niarton and Logan . TURNBULL Secretary-Treasurer Box "98, Exeter, Ontario GLADILIN & STANBURY Bohcitora, Exeter OLIVER IfAR llibber i ■ Backaches and Headaches Mrs. Murray Tebbutt*, Chatsworth, Ont., writes-.—“For years I had been subject to backaches and headaches, and could find no remedy that really seemed to relieve me until a neighbor told me about Doan’s Kidney Pills. “I hesitated, for a While, about tak­ ing them, but finally I got a box and found to my great satisfaction that both the backaches and headaches were slowly but surely leaving me, so I got two more boxes and before I had finished the second one I was feeling very different. “My work became a pleasure again,> and to-day I am in perfect health. ” Price, 50 cents & box at all druggists and deailersy or mi ailed “■ direct "!bn receipt of price.- by The fj?. Milhum Co.,- Limited,’ Toronto, Ont. Mr. S- Brock, having declined to act as Weed Inspector and Cow Sup­ ervisor, it was resolved on motion of Shier-Dew, that the Council en­ deavor to secure t‘he services of a man for these offices tor the March 1st. meeting. Wiiliams-Shier: That the estimat­ ed expenditure for Township Roads, for 1930 be $18,000.00 subdivided as follows: Construction $5,000.00; machin­ ery $2,000.00; superintendance $1,- 000.00; maintenance and repairs $10,000.00. Carried. Westcott-Dew; That the follow-' ing bills be_paid, viz: G. A. McCague, Agricultural, Re­ presentatives, grant to Short Course $15.00; Dr. A. Moir, medical service Jno. Boa $10.00; R. G. Seldon, coal $15.00; S. J. Pym, salary as Col­ lector $75.00. Carried. . The Fletcher Drain report ’to be considered at 2 p.m., March the 1st. also the Pym-Drain at 3 p.m. Council adjourned to meet again at the Township Hall, on Saturday, March 1st, at 1 o’clock' p.m. Henry Strang, Clerk GAME & FISHERIES DEPT. OFFICE OF DEPUTY MINISTER but then, Spragge's Farm wasn’t on his beat. So having found out jmiglity little, I thanked him and lie went off. 'And then, after he’d gone a few yards he turned round and came back. It appeared that he had suddenly remembered that the cards, which Spragge had put in one or two ig that1 he took in boarders, ligd been re­ moved recently, the .assumption be­ ing that possibly, he had given up' that side line./ And that comprised .all the information I got. “Off and on through the morning ! take our present house. It clear sweep for miles right sea, and I’ve installed ia . telescope on the terrace-—-a telescope, Peter, which has been and is going to be of assistance, p turn to our muttons. you, the Marsh itself is sparsely pop? ulated. The only considerable towns, are Rye and AVinchelsea—*-which cap’ hardly be said to be on Romney. Marsh at all. Rye is set on a sort of conical hill, and must, in the olden days have been almost surrounded j irad a look at the place, but noth- by water. Blit except for them, and ing of the slightest interest did I Lydd, where the artillery range is/ see. Once a man came out who 1 and New Romney, there’s not much 1 assumed was Spragge himself, apd I in the house line, and those, that are’saw the woman two or three times, there 'belong principally to farmers. has out ’ powerful j T-Tnwpvnr tn rp- I oP‘afc>fe^ *“iu pui- uil"- ’Aq T’vp tnidlof the s}loPs of Iiye.advertisin, , . _ _ r. . — —- -., — . — - - ~ , _> Sj small, but except for that there, was no ---------- t t sign of life about the farm. And “About n week ago—to be exact,'after a while I began to.wonder if the-day before I wrote you—-I was. undressing to go to bed. It was fairly early—not more than eleven or a quarter past—and at tor I had got into pyjamas I sat by tho open window having a final cigarette. My dressing-room faces over the Marsh, and I could see the lights of a pass­ ing steamer going West. Suddenly, from the very middle- of tho Marsh itself, there came a red flash lasting about a second; then a pause, and a moment afterwards it was blue. Ttyey were repeated half a doaen times— red, blue, red, blue—-then they ceas­ ed altogether. “For a while I -sat there staring out,■'wondering what on earth they could mean. By putting a couple of matches on my dressing-table I got the rough alignment so that I could get the direction in the morning— but I was sorely tempted to go- out and investigate then and there. How­ ever, I decided not to; Phyllis was in bed, and I was undressed. And if the trues, bo told, Peter, even at that early hour tho possibility of a little fun had struck me, and I didn’t want to run the risk of cramp­ ing my style. So I didn’t mention anything about it: to the dear soul. That it was a signal of some sort seemed fairly obvious, but for what arid to whom? The first thought that Hilled across my mind was that smugglers wore mt work. For it ru­ mors speaks the truth there is a de­ vil of a lot of smuggling going on- since these new silk duties were put oh, There are stories told of fast motor-boats that go careering about in the middle of the night. How* over, when I begin to think things over a bit. I dismiss *hg theory. To put teemed unlikely that : 'n such an extremely ttshiesg would take ‘vnHtsc themselves ' ’’I’te lights all '* one wortHl n *lghal—-It such the whole thing Wasn’t capable of some -perfectly ordinary explanation; or possibly that the farm itself was not the origin of. the lights. “And then,, Petei\ there occurred the thing which caused my letter to you and the departure of our women; kind today?’ Hugh lit a cigarette, and I followed suit. Up to date it struck me that the doings had been hardly such as to awake feverish excitement in tho breasts of the troops, but I knew my man. Domesticity might have dull­ ed him a little, but he could still spot the genuine article like a terrier a rat. ' “We will nriw leave the Marsh,” he continued, “and come to the higher ground where my house is. I’ve get no one near me—-my next neighbor being-about half a mile away, He, too; commands a view right out- (o sea, but there all between Granger, got remarkably little use for appearanacq, he'is small, and measly looking;- you, see ’smaller editions4 in a bit of’ ripe1 Silton. As far as I know he lives alone? save tern" two. servailtS-^-prie < a groat vlytiiloclt of a man who lo$ks like a prizefighter/ “ elderly female \ who At those details ffaijVjnS? because I've never "been in fad;-the February-6, 1930 Esq., Township of Usborne, No. 1, Hensail, Ontario^ Henry Strang, Clerk, It. R. Sir: Medd, M.L.A., Exeter-, .called V. al the smuggl- it mildly, it mon ongag&f ycrol add' risk* the trouble U by flashing re over the pla<v have expects it wa$--to b< diniliarlty ends, .us, I trust. His name is iand he’s a gentleman I’ve In the other cooks.,, .t own 'htaffi inside hia’inyise myself s . , , only time Rye met the blight^ ii/w casionaily hift walking, wheni; invariably ncfco-mpanied by’/this/ tessional png. And it wa'i bn Rich occasion that ha stopped spoke to mo. (To bo Continued) prd/ one ami Why is it (hat tvo tat' hens' .... •nd not duck oggsf Rome say Lb- num the hen advertises. • As soon i she lays >an egg she tells the vorld, the supervision of officers of tho Department,” a Deputy Game and Fishery Warden is all that is. neces­ sary to carry on an organized hunt. ' A copy of the Game and Fisheries Act is being forwarded to you uhder separate cover and I feel>that the Information furnished you will have no difficulty in- carrying out ypfir organized rabbit hunts. ? » I have the-honour to.'be, sir, < . • Your obedient servant ; D. M. Donal,<1,. ' ; ' Deputy Minister After .about two weeks illness: •Mrs. Rathwell wife of Thomas Rath- well, Clinton, passed away at. her home rin her Thirty years ago they moved to Stanley "Township living there until moving to Clinton eighteen /years ago. Two sons and four daughters survive. passed away at her seventy-second year. Mr. ......... . ; at this office yesterday in coiiuecfion with . your letter regarding a. peti­ tion ' made by the Municipal Council j of tiie'Township of Usborne for Gun Licenses free of charge for the year 1'930 for the purpose of destroying rabbits. ‘ In .reply» the Department is of ■ the opinion that' there must be a ■ certain amount of misunderstanding in connection with tho provisions of tho Game and Fisheries Act govern; ing dun Licenses. Section 10, slfb- sectidn 3 of the Act provides that! ,tlxe farmer is exempt fi-bin such reg­ ulations when, he is residing aiid' linntiu'g oh his own farm. jStib-sec- tion f/b'f the same section further ^provides:'-,.. ■ “The Department may, upon dp^ plication . by ‘residents of ,ttlue Pro­ vince/ authorize the • eon dueling of organized rabbit hunts by’ the appli­ cants under 'the ..supervision of. of- 'ficers of the Department, arid where1 such rabbit are organized with- im 'the aicriscpecitjed iu sfibsoction 3,. lhe.«lirQvisions 'o’frithe aforomen- lioyed.’ subsection ais use ariy.Hho-atm or air- gun except undiw the authority of a license, rilialLhot apply to persons comprising such rabbit hunts/’ Under the circumstances, you can arrange for a hunt every day of Um week, or* just>as often ascyou wisli/ by applying to the DiMrlct ^upori’n- tendent of Game and lonel R, Emmertoh, Royal Bank Building, Where the Act. rcfi Professor—“Now when two bodies in motion come together hbat is gen­ erated.” .Voice from rear—“No sir, I hit a guy yesterday and he knocked me cold. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mr-S;^ NFte’Petersq'n, who have beep, visiting - with old’ friends in and qrouhd EXeter left-' Friday to Visit- with their da lighter Mrs. M* Dox neai’ Ajlsa’ Craig fori a few weeks before returning to their home in Barwick, Raiiiey River District. Mrs. Billings, ’Of the Central Hotel is confined to her bed from the ef­ fects of a sprained knee. Last week Mr. John Da an coy. of ; London, moved to town and is oc- ! cupying the residence recently pur­ chased from Mr. Jas. Ogden, j Mr. S. Marlin is moving into'his 1 new house, this week. Mr. W. Mar­ tin faking the. house vacated by him and Mr. R. Phillips the apartments vacted by Mr. “IV. Marlin over the store. i; I Fishcric Room London ,*rs to * Co- 112 and Mrs. John Passmore, whil her household duties on morning slipped on the ice 'Outside the door and falling broke her arm above the wrist. j Mr. Richard Welsh shipped a oaij of horses to Winnipeg W Bruce Mitehell Saturday after spending near Owen Sound and agent for the Gtwdisrm Thr of Ram la. about Friday Wednesday, returned on a few weaki Wlarton nJ !d ng Co