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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-08-01, Page 2THURSDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1935 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE paid a t t still shewed.J, w V L th di;:t.ar Fall' n came upright■V h ii wn h k ph ir id ,v ;ui ir; the be the ii ;e .n Sn Be ash uni 'f .e against med to Id <■ wan ;• tn a’’; firn n t it il tile a Tht aad dar <rta tere said has beentlin nee I'ourt re- an unex- an •a more the the shot, case -ma: tually used Siwash’s king ■mg He had then sought defendants and questioned ice the c; ,t he ball game Monday afternoon Tom, cf Toledo, Ohio, u: m • led * dark shadew. out the them. “They Siwash, ness to I asked they exr •caribou dueed a Their carb not been a powder The iv il the cabin zard, who. Skagway door, a SB his way n he caught glimpse the def. u« was, of > 11 i gre.it when u-k claimed ’>< Lmg aft-1 h;’u on I..i “In Dm body wu- .-f Lake fact of m*. “To eUtt they had met no h -wed uythin. ala ut it ns had f hide a .44 aned rk ” S t‘. the teed wai -fore h* unwilling- W’hen blood dust, blood of a and pro­ prove- it. calibre gun had and WOQDHAM Next Sunday the Sunday School will be held at 10 a.m. as usual but no other service will be held during the day. The Mission Band ‘has accepted an invitation to visit with Zion M. Band on Friday afternoon uf this week at the home uf Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Hern. A great number from here attend­ ed the Old Boys and Girls Reunion at Exeter Saturday evening last mid also attended the Decoration Ser­ vices at the Exeter cemetery Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Arnold Hern spent Saturday last with her sister Mrs. Jas. An­ derson, of Thames Road. Mrs. Ralph Batten, of Bridgebnrg visited the week-end at the home of her parentis Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Shier. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McNaughton spent Saturday last in London. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McCullough and children spent Saturday after­ noon last in Exeter. Mrs. Edgar Squire and Merle, of Whalen, visited Saturday last at home of the former's mother Mrs. J. Morley. Rev. Mr. Lovegrove leaves this week again to he with his family who are spending their vacation in the North country. secret ? “N >, sir. Anything I told him was ol my wn accord.” “Did you feel safe there?” "I felt tte safe as if I was in™ Gi d’s p. eket.” The courtroom smiled a little at this lb moly but expressive miners’ phrase. Pete then bld what had happened up to the arrest of the accused men in Dalton‘s camp. I will ask you one more ques­ tion,” said Wade, in the deep silence that fcllowel “Do you love the defendant, Maitland?” Pete’s gray eyes were shadowed. She bit her lip as she had done that day when t-lie recovered fn m the throes of cold. Two big tears rolled down her cheeks. “I have told the truth,” she murmured. “I think, Your Hon r,” Wade, “that the question sufficiently answered.” * * , when tho produced He looked, toward courtr iom and said, his visit to ‘ of the bliz- being sent to reached the had slunk out of • cabin wall, and st ’rm-whitened c discovery that a malmute dog md a fact Maitland, me from, istray, not : the cari- FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT Speed Malone, hardened gambler, and Ed. Maitland, son vi a sea­ faring New England family, were partners in the Yukon goal rush of ’97. They met -m the trip north in a crowd that included Frenthy, the fisherman. Lucky Rose, the beautiful girl who took a fancy to Maitland, Fallon, lead­ er of’the miners, win. resented Rose’s interest in Maitland; Brent old-time prospector: Garnet, who gave Maitland and Speed his out­ fit when he quit the trail, and pete and afe drunken partner, Owens, who was drowned after a h.awl. Pete turned out to be a girl in disguise. Speed killed a man at Skagway--a cheat manag­ er ut a shell game—and months later was arrested ami put m jail ’ for his murder. He gut ut, but while he waited for Lefty, who I.ffe’ed to help him, to get back the mail he had been eariyinu for the Mountie® at Bennett—where Drew and Catheart were station-1 ed —he was recaptured by his en- i my, Fallon. But Maitland and .Pete rescued him as Fallon was about to lynch him. They made __ for their vamp at Bennett—Pete accused and Maitland with the horses, by •one r- ute. Speed by another. Led by the lead dog, Rusty, they found Dalton’® deserted cabin. The second morning. Dalton staggered in rm rtally wounded—and died before he could tell Pete where the claim was. . . Two Mounties arrest Speed and Maitland for the .first, and .<< far as was known, the murder (of which they a<re inno-jonly witness for the defense. cent) of a Siwash on Lake La-; Pete was unmistakably a very at- NOW GO ON WITH THE tractive girl; to this crowd of hard- living men she was something more I rare and gracious than the words convey, or than may be imagined by any but men who have lived in ’ frontier mining camps. “Had y?u ever seen the defend­ ants before they arrived in Skag­ way?” Garnet “No, sir.” "What was you?” "I suppose , my foster father. first up his ranch.” before, | "Did he ever speak to you ,cf your proved f ■dog to t that tha an unkn a gold secret. Garnet the jury as t) the circumstantial nature of the evidence, called the ur it r y a- camp or origin, and was the hide-out of white prospector with As was proved.” , after a brief address to as t) barge. STORY. “And so, gentlemen of the Jury,' the Crown will prove that the de­ fendants had a motive for the mur-> der of this Siwash, and did in fact kill him.” I The Grown Prosecutor, Wade cast a heavy-lidded, mordant stare' at the jury and sat down. By con-J trast, Garnet, at an adjoining table nearer the prisoner’s deck looked i like an urbane courtier. The arrivial of one .of the river steamers, some weeks __ _ . __ _ ____ had provided the accused men yith real father?” their distinguished counsel, Gar-. "Only once. He spoke then as if net’s mission in the North had Dalton ware my father. Or anyway proved to be a political one. Learn- some near kin of mine.” ing, when he landed, of the charge} “What did y-ou, do after Owens against the two partners, he had of- died?" fered to undertake their defense. | Maitland looked older for the two months c;f prison life elapsed since his arrest, do wed look in was not wholly ahead of him; that was past. A weather-beaten man he never seen was being sworn Garnet had resumed his seat. Ion’t bulky figure slouched at toward the center of the row or nesses. Nearer, Maitland’s rested on Pete, with the emotion which the sight of a 1 loyal friend brings to a trouble. A wave of brimmed his heart. Pete wore summery firo.ck of light blue; her golden hair was longer then he re­ membered it, and arranged in a •more feminine 'fashion. It was h'is first glimpse of her in girl’s attire, and she was altogether lovely. Police records of the finding of the native’s body that Spring in the breaking ice of Lake Labarge, had established the fact of murder. The Siwash had been killed by a .44 bul- shrieked and the voice let which struck him in the back. I wasp't sure of what it Hlis icorpse had been disposed of last, through an air hole in the ice, and i had lain in this concealment through ’ the winter. Its having floated fin­ ally to the surface was due to the rising warm currents from the lake bed. , Wade’s first witness was a trader from the old post at Ogilvie on the Yukon. The trader told a very queer story, which went back' into earlier Yukon the tale which adready heard While some was open to passed the witness without cross- examining, and Wade called a sea­ soned-looking officer cf the Mount­ ed Police. Wade here produced the furs and mukluks Dalton had worn. He compared them with those taken from the body of the murdered In­ dian to prove, by an identical work­ing of the bead ornaments, that! they had been fashioned by the same native hand. Garnet had passed this evidence without question. Wade called Cor­ poral Cathcart to the stand. | Cathcart explained that the tracks tangled in an odd way through the timber that sheltered the camp, and were difficult to read, He told of finding a pool of blackening snojw crystals near the head, of the lake, covered but showing through in a .......................................... I .<fa.Mii.iMrt>. r ............. ............ that had The eha- his eyes, however, due to the ordeal it came from one had in. Fal- ease wit­ eyes asked. Owens’ relation to you would call him I was raised at * Next in ruing, opem d. Garnet peeted witne-s. the rear -f the i "Rose Valeri'.” At the name, j in his chai:, startled out of the de­ tachment. He turned his head in frowning unbelief. But he was unnoticed by the court room as Rose appt"’ached the stand. Though the river had car­ ried many rumere of her beauty, this was her first ' appearance in Dawson. Indifferent to the crowd’s stare, she looked at the accused men and then at Pete, with some inward, un­ readable thought. Her dark eiyee showed a glitter of fire when they crossed with Fallon’s, who back now, carelessly, while being sworn. "Miss Valery,” said “where were you born?” "I don’t know,” Rose answered. Her low voice had the quality of plucked harp strings. “Where were you cared for as a child?” "In the convent school at Notre Dame at the Mission Dolores in San Francisco. I was taught music and singing at the convent,” Rose ven­ tured, “until I was 15, but I was restless, and discipline only made me unhappy. I away, and did, and Sessional singer. “I had a plan of country. A little slouched she was Garnet decided to so became a run pro- Among the four distinguished Premier James G. The umpire, Hm. at bat, with W. Il “I went over the pass to find Dal­ ton and warn him. I sold a mounted gun and some things 'for grub, and rode down the looking for him. I didn't have to go '.n, net even Jcnowing Dalton looked like. ' came, fold I climbed ever the convent wall at a place where a sloping ba-rn roof touched it. I got on a street car at Guerrero Street. As I hadn’t any carfare the conductor put me off at the second stop, two blocks below. “A boy was singing in a high reaching the after dark loved and i man in tenderness a days, and. rehearsed the accused men had fr.om Drew. of this testimony objections, Garnet gold- I had lakes much what ______ ___ ___ When the cold, I met a rafting .outfit who; soprano voice in front of an open camped to cut timber a little way air bootblack stand next the saloon, up the Teslin, and they gave me a where the sports were getting xi. _ -----jL. ••--'shined up for the evening. “It surprised me to see the meh at the shoe-stand throw him 'money —even one half-dollar piece—for what wasn't really a good song, or very good singing, exept for being strong and clear. While he gath­ ered up the coins, I sang the refrain cf the flong. The boy was angry, but the men encouraged me, and we tried to sing each other down. As it was easier to chord with him, I sang alto, and our duet stopped the t=hoe-shining. When we finished the men gave me a hand/ful of sil­ ver: one of dollar piece. “I divided boy, and then in together and play the corner, put 1 said sing in “The to go- over, a shadow fell between us from the street lamp and I found that the man who’d given me the dollar wais •standing there listening. “ ‘So you’re headin’ for Nevada?’ he asked. “When I agreed we were, he said he knew all about the country; .had been there not so long before the brought out a heap of gold, and he was going again, so he could give us a steer and see that we were treated right. "On the car going downtown, he feaid something to the boy I could­ n’t hear, and gave him a gold coin. job cooking for them through the winter.” "Why did you net prompted. “It was cnly a the break-up. I thing of Dalton what to do. “That night I woke up hearin’ a voice close to my bunk, on the other side of the tent wall. The voice was shouting to me above the noise of the storm, but it sounded dim. The words were something like, 'If you’re Pete, get out of the North, and get quick! You’re in danger. I’m in a tough fix . . . can’t take you down river, Fo.r God’s sake, keep clear of leave them?” Gar- week or two before hadn’t heard any- and was -wondering I The wind died. away, said at the of Fallon’s"Soon after that, one men happened by the camp and saw me. I knowed Fallon was lookin’ for me, and felt that this was what the warning meant. I saddled, the mare ard started for the coast. “It was a heavy, cold trail. The going was easier on the level snow of Lake Lebarge, but Chiquita and I were both dead tired b'y then, and there is more than a day I’m not clear about. All the time I had a feeling of being followed or shad­ owed by someone or something. “Then—i kind of lost count. I think I was in a river canyon when the storm broke. There were wild voices in it like wolves. I must have .pulled the mare out of it and into the open when the storm struck. Then next thing I know I was in Mr. Maitland’s cabin. The dog leg him to where I’d fallen in the snow.” "Did you tell Maitland why you were making for Skagway in that I weather?” ' “No, sir.” “Why didn’t you, Pete?” “Fie and Speed had had a quarrel with Fallon before, and I didn’t want to make it worse because of me. Or to mix them up in any trouble about Dalton either,” “During your stay at the cabin, did Maitland ask you any questions about Owens or Dalton, or his gold I them handed me a what I got with the he wanted us to throw WHALEN by batter; ■.“union was t.he cipening of the gue>ts. Tile to'P picture shows Senator Frank W. K. Gardiner, of Saskatchewan, pitcher, and W. H. Golding, M.P., for South Huron, catcher. Justin Nlelviile Martin, cf Regina, is not shown. The lower picture shows Senator Tom . Gnilding, ready tn stop a fast one. Both Old and Young liable To Summer^ Complaints Few people escape autofttack of diarrhcea, dysentery, or some other bowel Complaint during the summer months. 8 Those attacks may Mt slight or they may bo severe. You can't tell when t!dey seize you whore they are going to end. Let thi^in run for a day or two and see how weak and prostrate they will leave you. On the first sign off any looseness of the bowels get a bottle of Dr, Fowler’s Extract of Wild Straw­ berry. Take a few (te and see how quickly you will get relief, i, \\ 13jl » Recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Baillie were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ford, Detroit; Mrs. Archie Ford, of New York; Mrs. Mollie Lyre, Strat­ ford; Mrs. Morley Marsaw, and son Thorold, <of London; Mr. Allen Lam­ bert and Miss Eva Thomson, and Mr. and Mrs, Robert Kerr, of Tor­ onto. Those from this community who attended "Old Boys” at Exeter and. visited with friends are: Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Johnson and family Mrs. Frank Squire and Shirley, Vel­ ma Squire and Maida Morley. Mrs. Milne Pullen visited recently with Mrs. Harold Hern, Zion. Miss Gladys Squire spent Satur­ day with Mrs. Anderson, Thames Road. The Mission Band are entertain­ ing the W. M. 3. on Friday at the home of Mrs. Thos. Gunning. Alex McEwen; McKillop, Gordon McGavin and James Scott; Seaforth, Mayor Sutherland; Hensalil, Andrew Love and Exeter, Mervin Cudmore, and the executive of the U. F. O. riding association. Huron-Perth Farmers to Back Stevens WILL PICK CANDIDATE HENSALL PAIR WIN W. i representative of the Stevens party i but basing his address largely upon the Stevens manifesto and the speech j made by Mr. Stevens as he opened I his campaign in Hamilton a week , ago.I Calling this the transition period j fr in an era or system of scarcity to I an eia of plenty, he declared that i the farmer must regain the purchas­ ing power of 1928 iif the depression G .Medd and Mayor Sutherland, is py.?r to end. Seaforth, Mentioned as possibilities "More and more we angricultural people find we are not getting lead­ ership. I’ll net say anything about Mr Bennett because the people are I waiting to have their say. The farmers have been waiting ever since ! lie slammed the door in their faces when he went to Ottawa. I’ll net say anything about Mr. King because there is nothing to say abcut him. He has nothing to at­ tack and has offered nothing thro- j ugh-out the entire depression. His attitude is best summed up in the , ‘I will do noth- of about 15 representative men was i aTnd promise noth- chosen to organize and pick dele-!"^ ^iat ^.en. 1 ^1? gates who will select the Stevens ^,JVn„2 tn lf 1 candidate next Wednesday. !c tinue to do nothing. Robert McMillan, brother of the late Thomas McMillan, Liberal stal-l wart who represented the riding for! Progressives and United Farmers * cf Ontario in the riding of Huron-' Perth, formerly South Huron, will support the Stevens Reconstruction partly in the coming federal elec­ tions. This was decided as the Progres­ sives and United Farmers held a joint meeting in • Hensall Thursday and endcreed the Stevens program, i The meeting was virtually turned R . Sentence into a Stevens Club as a committee e’. Stevens Platform ___ __ ____a _ He declared that the more im'por- ma’ny years,” proposed tha’t the meet- ’ tant planks in the Stevens .platform ing support the Stevens partly and ar® his attitude on. finance, trade was named as acting chairman of and .agriculture, which he expounded the organizing committee, which at length. He advocated the con­ forms the nucleu® of the Stevens trcil .of money and credit with the Club for the riding.______________j nationalization of the Bank of Can- His name is also heard as a pcs- ada, a board of economists to study £.ible candidate ifor the party, to- social credit and lower interest rate, gether with the names of ’William; He referred to the disputed na- Black, president of the U.F.O. rid- ticnalization of gold mine*?, saying ing association and a former U.F.O. I that the Stevens .party would devel- member< W. G. Medd, twice a pro- op new areas and new mines, using vincial member for the U.F.O., May-.a]1 the to. pay off national debt, or Andrew Sutherland, of Seaforth, I On the tariff plank he declared and W. W. Cooper, a former Inde- the Stevens’^ party^ for lower tariff pendent candidate. Meet Wednesday The bowling tournament held in Hensall on Wednesday was quite largely- attended with entries Lucan, xAilsa Craig, Crediton, forth and Goderich and the bowlers. In the Scotch. doubles, S. G. Rannie and Dr. McTaggart, ski®, won out, 3 plus 20, both Second place and 'Fred Park, three plus 13. William Sangster and both of Hensall with 2 'plus 24, and the fourth place by W. O. Goodwin and John Shepherd, of Hensall, with 2 plus 10. It wild be seen that the locals were winners in three events Quite a number witnessed the games desipite the extreme heat. from Sea­ local ■of Hensail. went to Dr. Bantin of London, who had Third .place went to lAlf Clark, PINDER—NAIRN Keep a COOS. KITCHSBI A pretty wedding took place in Fullarton United Church when Amel­ ia Lorene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Nairn, Fullarton, became the bride oif Howard Sterling Pinder, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thus. Pinder, -of Munro. Rev. H. W. Hagei- stein performed the ceremony. Miss June Nairn, sister of the bride -was bridesmaid. The -grooms­ man was Mervin Nairn, brother off the bride. The bride, being the first married in Fullarton United Church was pre­ sented with a Bible from the board of Stewards. Mr. and Mrs. H. S, Pinder, left on a motor trip to Toronto, Hamil­ ton and Niagara Falls. On their re­ turn they will reside on the bride­ groom’s ifanm near Munro. WHAT could be simpler on a hot morning than getting a breakfast of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes? Cool. Crisp. De­ licious. Ready in an instant. Everybody loves Kellogg’s. And they’re a perfect food ; for hot days — breakfast, i lunch or supper. Light, ! nourishing, easy to digest. Kellogg’s Corn Flakes are ; the world’s largest-selling ; ready-to-eat cereal. Made extra-crisp by an exclusive Kellogg process, and kept oven-fresh and flavor-perfect by the patented heat-sealed WAXTITE inner bag. Insist on Kellogg’s for genuinO value. Quality guaranteed. Made by Kellogg in London, Ontario. but charge that the Liberals had never lowered tarififs as promised. “The era of plenty has upset the The candidate will be shown, by, theo-ry of free trade so that it .wild 'never work again,” he said. On the a-rgricultural plank the new Stevens Club when they j meet at the home of Mr. Black in j Tuckersmith Township, near He will then have to be endorsed by the fe­ deral executive of the Stevens .party, according to a .rule Of the new group. The Stevens candidate will be op­ posed by W. H. Golding, the sitting member and Liberal standard bear­ er, who was elected by a majority of 1,900 following the death of the late Thomas McMillan. He was nom­ inated again several months ago. The Conservative party organiza- three- while a and a I was .going to Nevada to the gold camps, boy got excited and wanted [forth Wednesday night. While we we.re talking it 1 tion ie also working and a cornered ifight is premised, there is a strong possibility of strictly Independent candidate four-cornered battle, vwaax. Tiie action taken at the meeting The boy got .off, telling me he wasJn th& Hensall Town Hall Thursday was forecast in advance notices. Theee stated that H. H. Hannam, se­ cretary of the U. F. O., Toronto, would give an address on the Ste­ vens manifesto and declared that the meeting would consider alignment with the Reconstruction partly and the nomination of a candidate. The meeting was not particularly well attended but the Huron County bumper crops and shortage of help was blamed for the empty seats. “I’m 100 per cent, behind Stevens going to buy some things and meet us later. “I wasn’t so sure about t>he man’s looks. He was big, rather handsome and sunburned. He said we couldn’t start till morning, and .he got me a room at a hotel near the Baldwin. He told me he wasn’t going to Ne­ vada. He didn’t need to, and did not want to.” ‘ ’ “I wa<i angry and disgusted. While he was sleeping. I got out. I still x ±uu ,uub> small change I’d.an(j we have a Stevens candidate sung for, and soon found that money jn this riding I’ll fght tooth and nail was easiy to earn that way. ’ - - ■ - - ■■ -- - - “I bought a guitar and clothes and paid mv own iwav Nevada. C : A a camp casino in Golconda when a woman fuddled table to ising for them. She was drunk herself. Her face must been beautiful once. (Continued next week) some to One night I was playing who was drinking miner called me to with a i their half- have DEER DIES ON BEACH A deer that apparently hounded into the lake by had returned exhausted to i to collapse and die at the, edge, was discovered south of Bay* field, Provincial Constable P. E, Mc­ Coy wa6 notifed and after examining the carcass, he ordered that the ani­ mal be buried. beenhad dog«o and the shore i water’s to elect -him.” Wiliam Black, the President of the U. F- O- Association declared as he apened the meeting and introduced Mr. Hannam. He declared the odd parties as too dishonest to realize or act upon the wishes -of the people or too entang­ led with the moneyed interests to carry out the wishes of the people. > He also criticized the concentration of wealth while other® dive on charity and was of the opinion that the Gov­ ernment should not have assisted I the deflation b£ commodity prices. “The rural dollar was cut in two while the city doillar grow. Our whole system ha® becam-e so entangled that many are ready to scrap it entirely and make a now start. I’ll never vote for a. Grit or Tory again as long as I live.” Mr. Hannam spoke at length, ex­ plaining that he was not an .ofiflcial _______ __ he de­Sea-1 dared that the Government would have to step in and control business to a larger extent and had high praise" for the Marketing Act, which he said, was the most fundamental (legislation ever passed in the inter­ est of the farmers. He also, expiat­ ed the Stevens’ promises' of high income taxes, cheaper transporta­ tion across Canada, protection dC women with equal pay fo-r equal work w4t-h men and prison reform. "What about Stevens in the Man­ ufacturers Finance Corporation?” the speaker was asked. “Isn’t it significant that this is brought out by a .Liberal Govern­ ment now on the eve of an election and was not aired before?” was Mr. Hannam’s reply. Then Mr. Robert McMillan pro­ posed that the meeting support the Stevens’ party. “God knows we need something Our leaders know nothing of finance and can’t balance a budget and in the last days of the session spent money to' buy votes," he said. Mayor Andrew Sutherland, Sea­ forth seconded the motion, “We let Laurier down before but don’t let down Stevens,” he said. Mr. Medd W. G. Medd, former U. F. O., pro­ vincial member for two terms spoke briefly and promised his support. Mayor Eric Harris, of Sarnia, or­ ganizer for the Stevens’ party in Lambton, Kent, and West Middlesex outlined the methods followed by the Stevens party and W. G. Morris­ on, U. F. Q., of Sarnia, added a few words. Then the committee men were chosen and instructed to secure five supporters for their townships and have them at the first meeting of the Stevens’ Club of the riding at the home of Mr, Black next Wed­ nesday to choose a candidate. The committee men: Stanley Twp., John Murdock; Hay Township, A. i Hendricks; Stephen, E. J. Shapton and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor; Uflborne, Dick Hunter; Hibbert, George Ho­ ward: Fullarton, 0/ Sawyer; Tuck- ersmith., R. P. Watson and Wallace Hauck; Huilet, Charles Watson and Chalmers Reunion On Saturday, July 27th, in beautiful grove on the farm of John Allison,) Thames Rlqfad, Chalmer’s Clan gathered in their tenth annual re-union. The day was ideal and the e)i(ghty-three prbqfent enjoyed it fully. The afternoon was spent in social chat and the usual sports—ball games and races. The children enjoyed fully the slide, teet­ ers and swings. After the bountiful supper there was a short program—addresses by Rev. Mr. Mair, minister of Thames Road church, Hon. Jas. Gardiner, Premier of Saskatchewan, and Mr. Fred Chalmers of Regina. Telegrams and greetings were received from “The Cooper Family, the Allison Family and The Mussers of Regina, The McCullough Family, Vancouver, and Mrs. D'. Chalmers’, Thamesford, The old officers were re-elected for another year. (Members of the Clan were present from Regina, Ottawa', Kingsville, Stratford, Uderton. Exeter, Kirkton and Centralia. Races resulted as follows: Under 5—Grant Morgan, Bobbie Parker,- Lillian Borland. 5 to 8— Beverley Morgan, Marie Fletcher, Douglas Fletcher. Girls, 9 to 12-— Shirley, Leone and D'oris Duncan, Boys, 9 to 12—Allison Morgan, WiL fred Gardiiner, Wiilbu^r Passmore. the Mr. the C O M F © KT fred , _______ Girls, 12 to 15—Florence Gardiner, Helen 'Morgan. Mary Borland, Girls, 15 to 60—-Kathleen Wbi'sman, Beth Ballantyne, iMrsi Chas. Allison. Bops 15 to R0—Edwin Gardiner, Bill Alli­ son, Alvift Passmore. Blind race— Jean Prcbble, Alma Borland, Doris Duncan, 60-—Kathleen Wteisman, Beth “Just the other day a couple of kids were playing in an alley when one came upon a .pile of empty con­ densed milk cans, whereupon he squealed: ’Oohb —Willie! — come here quick and see the cow’s nest.”