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he Dominion of Canada Cannot
Progress If It Continues the Ex-
, isting Scale of Federal Taxation,
,0 Which is Tremendously Higher
Than That Over the Boundary
c Line -Capitalists Will Not Risk
;4. Organizing New Enterprises
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'dei This Great Handicap
Sir John Willison, in Willie:0;1's
Monthly for January, presents an
S.irresistibly strong case for nreduc-
'.tion in Federal taxes in Canada iii
'en article ill which he insisted that
eontintethe existing system of
:;fiti.en in Canada is the elirect road
netional suicide." Continuing, .?
John says:
e!:We evade the whole problem as
leugh we were unconscious or its
;lretinence and gravity. In •the Unit -
States with its vast stere.s of
ealth, its huge industries, and its
.,:normous competitive power, they
'are sweeping away every vestige of
'war taxation. They are not doing
this in order to make ne rich richer
or to relieve capital of its legitimate
obligations. The press and the poli-
tical leaders in the United States
have convinced the masses of the
people that high income taxes and
supertaxes on incomes and business
eat up the reserves of capital, pre-
vent the old expanion of old indus-
tries, check investment in new enter-
prises, produce stagnation and un-
employment, raise the prices of
goods alike to workers, farmers and
the professional classes, and directly
lower the level of national prosperity.
A few years ago, when Mr. Mel-
lon, Secretary of the United Stutes
Treasury, began his active attack
upon excessive income and super -
taxes, he was denounced by a united
Democratic party. But he carried
his case to the people, met the • at-
tack with courage, with facts, and
with argument, and convinced even
the demagogues, as numerous in the
United States as they are anywhere
else, that his general position -was un-
assailable. So complete was his vic-
tory that a few weeks ago the Ways
and Means Committee of Congress
unanimously adopted a taxation biJl
which reduces the whole scale of in-
come taxation so far below the rates
which are levied in Canada that the
comparison is disturbing to the last
degree.
Scaling Down Levies, .
The bill reported by the Ways and
Means Committee and approved by
decisive majorities in the House of
Representatives, reduces the revenue
by 8325,736,000 and relieves income
tax payers to the amount of 8198,-
575,000. The personal exemption
has been increased from $1,000 to
$1,500 for single persons and from
$2,500 to $3,500 for married per-
sons, with a further deduction of
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Sir John Willison, a former native
; of Stanley Township.
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$400 for each dependent. The nor-
mal tax rates are reduced from 2 to
1 1 1-2 per cent on the first $4,000 of
; taxable income., from 4 to 3 per cent.
on the remainder of the income. The
surtax rates in the new bill range
front 1 per cent on all net income in
excess of $10,000 to the maximum
of 20 per cent reached at 8100,000,
as compared with the old maximum
of 40 per cent on incomes in excess
of $500,000. The amount of income
on which the credit of 25 per eent
on "earned income" may be applied
has been increased from 810,000 to
$25,000. Furthermore many of the
so-called "nuisance taxes" have been
reduced or repealed. The tax en
cigars, which was "so high as to de-
press the business and reduce the re-
venue to the Government," has been
lowered. That on jewelry, described
as "difficult to collect and burden-
some of operation," has been repeal-
ed.. The tax on automobile trucks
was also repealed, because it was
"solely a tax on business." The lev-
ies on automobile tires and parts,
also repealed, were characterized as
taxes on "misfortune." The tax on
passenger cars was cut from 5 per
cent to 3 per cent, and that on alcohol
will be reduced from a maximum of
40 percent to 20 percent, and a cred-
it wil be allowed on state inheritance
levies of from 25 to 80 percent. In
justification of the repeal of excise
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GUARANTEED RELIEF' 823
STATEMENT OF
Receipts and Disbursements
of the
Brus5
sels Morris & Grey Telephone Co.
For the year ending December 31st, 1925 •
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RECEIPTS
Balance from 1924 $2831.35
Twp. of Grey, 1925 5733,00
11'wp. of Morris, 1925 ......3497,00
Village of Brussels, 1925 2223.00
l'wp. of E, Wawanosh, 1925 26.00
Twp. of McKillop, 1925 201.00
Twp. of Hallett, 1925 13,00
Twp. of Turnberry 1923-24 104.00
Twp. of Turnberry, 1925 , . 65.00
Rentals of Telephones .... 1176.20
Extension Telephones 41.00
Extension Bells 8.25
Ben Telephone Co., tons 1845.90
Molesworth 38.50
Wroxeter tolls . 65.36
Seaforth tolls . 89.50
Local tolls . ... . ... 6.20
Moving telephones ...... 8.25
Rent of rooms 24.00
Idiscellan eons 22.74
Total Receipts , 818,026.14
EXPENDITURES
Telephones, wire, supplies 83205.66
Freight and cartage 95.45
Wages of laborers 578,83
Fuel, light, etc. 207.94
Express, printing, stationery 205,41
Electric wiring, office 62.74
Painting and papering, office 62.02
Debeatures and coupons 2966.60
61.60
46.80
33.21
50.16
210.37
199.95
85,50
1678.15
2638.15
1200.00
770,00
123.00
Insurance
Taxes
McKillop Tel. S., tolls, 1924
McKillop Tel. S., tolls, 1925
Interest, Standard Bank.
Gasoline, oil, repairs, &c., .
Livery hire
Bell Telephone Co.
. Operators' salaries
Lineman's salary
Sec. salary & Treas. salary
Directors fees and expenses
Auditors, salaties, 1924-25 40.
Clerks, Collectors, other Mun. 32.00
Miscellaneous 2100
Total Expenditure .. $14,391.54
Balance on hand $868e.20
ASSETS
Approx, value of System .$83581.50
Stock on hand 2895,70
Cash on hand 3635.20
Unpaid rentals and tolls 1843,45
LIABILITIES
Deb, outstanding $14545.50
Bal. of Assets over
LhtbiThties 77410,35
891,955,85 891,955.85
SAM'S, A. H. MACDONALD, NOBLE GERRY,
Treasuver. Secretary, M. BLACK, j Auditor.%
ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Meeting will be held in the Town Hall, Brussels, op Tuns..
AY, li'EllItlJARY 901, 1926, at 1.80 &clerk pane when reports will be
Otsented,•Directors elected and other neeessary basinesa transtteted.
, A. TY, MACDONALD, Secretary.
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THE BRUSSELS
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The Answer to the Question 14 as
Simple as A B C -and So Is the
Way to Get the Money
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FOR Will -LING
All Kinchi
Flour and Feed
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Split Poo.Mill 29%
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and occupational Lamm and "nuisance
levies," it was explained that nes!.
taxes are not equitable in their ap-
plicaion and produce but little re-
venue."
A Disturbing Comparison
In consequence of these sweeping
reductions,. the comparative levies
upon a married man with no depend-
ents in Canada, as compared with a
citizen of the United States in like
circumstances, are as follows:
Total Total U. 8.
Dominion Federal
income income
tax tax
$ 40.00 None
80.00 $ 5.63
126.00 16.83
173.00 28.13
619.50 39.38
2,089.50 613.75
9,649.50 5,358.75
32,749.50 14,351.75
696,349.50 241,752.75
Income
8 3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
10,000
20,000
50,000
100,000
1,000,000
Manifestly when the new ratee at
Washington are finally settled and
exact comparison can be made -with
the levies in Canada, it will be im-
possible to maintain the existing
scale of Canadian taxation. It is
not surprising that the Citizen's Re-
search Bareau should ask "how Can-
ada expects to stand up in competi-
tion for population and capital un-
der such an excessive handicap." It
means that the Dominion must have
higher costs of production, that it
will be difficult, if not impossible., to
maintain wages approaching Ameri-
can standards, that the movement of
Americaa branch factories into Can-
ada will be interrupted, that we will
lose our advantage under preferen-
tial tariffs in Great Britain and the
othes British Dominions, that we will
have ,scarcer and dearer capital, that
capitalists will not take the risks in-
separable from the organization of
now enterprises and development of
natural resources, that prices of
natural resources of revenue be vital-
ly reduced.
The Citizen's Research Bureau
quotes some sentences from an ad-
dress by the Prime Minister of Aus-
tralia whith have a direct and signi-
ficant application to the situation in
Canada. "I think all students of ec-
onomics," be said, "ere agreed that
nothing curtails development, ham-
pers trade and industry, and reduces
the standard of living of the people
more than crippling taxation. In
comparison with other countries of
the world, our taxation is not exces-
sive, but having regard to our par-
icticular circumstances it is having a
disastrous effect. We are a young
country, with illimitable natural re-
sources but no great accumulated
wealth. A burden which could light-
ly be borne by an old country, with
its great capital resources, is one
which might strangle the future de-
velopment of a young nation."
How much moxe impressive would
be Mr. Bruce's warning if Australia
had such a velation as has this coun-
try to the United. States, with ite
vast accumulated wealth, its mighty
Industries and its power to draw Can-
adians across the border? It is not.
enough to say that we need revenue
and that the Dominion must carry
its obligations. There must be a radi-
cal revision of the system of taxation
and, if need be, a heroic reduction of
expenditure, if there is to be growth,
prosperity and progress in the Do-
minion,
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Nine thousand dollars in cash will
le. given away in Ontario before yea
are six weeks olilor, to 150 men,
women and children who want
$9,000 atfd know th.:,y want it
badly enough to go and got it.
And yet the fact of the matter is
that hundreds and thousands .of men
and women • and children who want
m. need .money -who have dreamed
of travel, of .buying automobiles, or
homes, or gay new elothee or libra-
Igoe; who have longed for a Mimic,, to
complete an ecineation, or .start in
business for themselves: wbo have
dependents who need greater oppor-
tunity -will not share in that great
pre -Easter gift of $9,000.
The reason 1A a mystery old as tile
altos.
Mr. A., on the corner of Y Street,
who needs money, .sees a chance to
make money, and goes and makes it.
Mr, B., who Ewe just around the
corner, who needs money twice as
badly as Mr. A., sees the same
chance, says "How • interesting" --
'and goes to the. movies,
How much would 82.000 buy for
you.
Would $2,000 do anything for you
that you want to do, and can't af-
ford? Would $2,000, handed to you
in one piece, make your vacation
tine happy this year?
Happiness is worth working for.
The Toronto Mail and Empire,
knowing that, puts happiness within
your grasp, in announcing a record-
breaking prize game, a hi:tory-mak-
ing. vacation prize division, in which
there is no cost to you, no invest-
ment from you required, no pledge
or promise or obligation on your
peat.
11,Ir. A. and Mr. S. may miss it.
Probably they will. They will not-
ice by the paper that Douglas Fair.
banks' new picture is in town, or
they will have a bridge game, or
some friends will drop in, or the snow
outside will lure them from the fixe -
side.
The result is that Mrs. Z.. who
knows what she wants and intends
to get it, will get $2,000 for vaca-
tion this year. And Mr. A. and Mr.
S. will say "Wasn't she lucky?'!.
"Now, why didn't we think of that?"
Or "I had the same chance. But I
didn't try it."
Many people put things off nnd
forget them. The wise ones and the
successful ones are the ones who have
a loudspeaker set up so they can
hear Opportunity's footsteps clear
down the next block.
And Opportunity this time means
the Toronto Mail and Empire's "B -
Word" picture puzzle contest, with
a record-breaking total of 89,000 in
Cash oyered for 150 winners.
Are you ready to enter? Watch
for the announcement of The Mail
and Empire "B -Word" Picture Puz-
zle Game in the paper next week.
1111. hoit
NOBODY LEARNING TRADES?
The complaint was voiced recently
that there is a shortage of mechanics
in Canada, or will be when the pa-
led of prosperity breaks on the coun-
try. A good many of Canada's train-
ed mechanics have gone to the Unit-
ed States, and Canadian boys are no
longer learning trades as they usea
to do.
The complaint about the shortage
of mechanics in Canada is significant
as an indication of the belief that an
era of industrial activity is at hand,
Some time ago the complaint was
that thqre were too many mechanics
in the country, or at least that there
were more of them than could -find
good job's.
The complaint that boys are no
longer learning trades is not restric-
tive to Canada. It is indicative of
modern conditions. Some put the
blame on the multiplication of auto-
mobile machinery -boys will not
spend the time necessary to learn a
trade, and be content with nominel
wages, vvhe.n they can go into a fac-
tory and learn to operate a mar:bine
In a few days. Other put the blame
on ones school system, which, it is
claimed, helps to create a desire for
what are known as "white collar"
jobs.
Possibly the conditions complained
of may be trusted to adjust them-
selves in time.
PERTH COUNTY.
Trinity United Church drive ants
833,270 for new church to be erect-
ed itt Stratforch
Listowel Horticultural Society lied
successful year. The &slaty will
hold a drive for membership from
Mettle 15 to $0.
R. W. 14, Relntrtspopular Angli-
can Reptoe at Mitellelle bag adeepted
the ilititatitin to 1 Bl
MAY GET APPOINTMENT
Hon. W. R. Motherwell, Ivlinhior
of' Agrivuture, win-, may b appointed
Lieutenant -Governor of Saskutelt..-
wan next month, whet, the- term of
Hon. If. Newlands expires.
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Here and here
Sawn luinber produetion in Nova
Scotia during 1925 totalled 300 mi -
lion feet, according to the provinciel
government statiotics. Of this quan-
tity 175 million feet have been ex-
ported. .
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Canada's mineral output for 1925
is estimated at 5228,440,000, as com-
pared with $209,585,406 for 1924.
The previous record was 8227,350,-
665 in 1920, when metal pricewere
about 35 ger cent. higher than in
1925.
Theia are 4,045,760 acres of home-
stead lands in Manitoba in a radius
of 20 miles from railway lines. In
all there are 25,286 quarter sections,
or sufficient to settle 20,000 families,
the bulk of the land being in Eastern
Manitoba.
The value of wheat delivered at
Western Canadian points from Aug-
ust 1 to December 15, 1925, was
$338,800,000, representing an aver-
age cash return to farmers of over
$1,300 per farm. This is a new high
record and the returns are greater
for the four and a half months than
for the ehtire preceding yaar.
According to information at Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Headquarters
at Montreal, the Canadian curlers
who went over to Scotland on the
C. P. liner "Montrose," are touring
the land of the thistle with success.
The Canadians defeated Strathmore
and Loch Leven at Edinburgh. J. G.
Macdonald, of Fort William, was
still unbeaten.
The whole company of "The Three
Little Maids," an English musical
comedy starring the famous British
comedian G. P. Huntley, arrived at
the C. P. R. Windsor Station, Mont-
real, recently, and grouped them-
selves round an engine for a novel
Photograph. The show is due in
Ontario during the months of Feb-
ruary and March.
A settlement, to be known as the
Clan Donald colony, comprising 100
families and covering 30,000 acres
of land, will be established near Ver-
milion, Alberta, this spring, through
a joint contract entered into by the
Canadian Pacific Railway, the gver-
aeas Settlement Conimittee and the
Scottish Immigrant Aid Society.
The railway has purchased the land
and the Scottish Immigrant Aid
Society is td secure the immigrants.
According to G. A. Harcourt,
Secretary of the Soldiers' Rehabili-
tation Committee at Montreal, fine
work has been done in the placing
of many returned men in good posi-
tions. There are still about 800
returned soldiers, married and living
in Montreal, who are out of work,
but many of these will be placed in
the model city of Arvida, which is
being constructed by the Aluminum
Company of America in the Lake St.
John district in Quebec.
Alfred H. Devenish has been ap-
pointed manager of the Royal Alex-
andra Hotel, Winnipeg, to succeed
S. F. Pierce who has gots to the
Vancouver Hotel, according to an
announcement by the Canadian Pa-
cific Hotel Department. Mr. Deven-
WI joined the Canadian Pacific
Hotel Department in 1912, and was
later accountant and assistant man-
ager at the Plaee Viger Hotel In
Montreal, He will leave the Algon-
quia Hotel at St, Andrews, N.B.,
Where Inc has been manager, to go
to Winnipeg.
A wide and distinguished galaxy
of speakers from Great Britain,
France and the United States is
announced for the third triennial
National Conference on Education,
to be held in Montreal April 5 to
9 next. Among those included arm
The Duchess of Atholl, Parliamen-
tary Under-Secretary to the British
Board of Education, Sir Ilenry Wal -
ford Davies, Chairman of the Na-
tional Council of Music of Wales;
Senator Andre Honnorat, former
Mihister of Education at Paris; His
Grace Mgr., Alfred ,
(trehbishop 0± Pati,
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WEDNESDAY, Feb., fird, 1920.
PALATABLE METHOD
OF EATING IRON
There is a saying that some men
I.1ll'e t011ph pool4gh io "r lr,w nails:" It
le :not likely Ilint iron ili this form
will ever ia.conie a Impala]. artiele of
Mei, even though ineclicel men toll tia
time a c,rttik l!notant of inn, in eur
reed is ti ti for bodily 16.itlih.
Fc,tunat,,ly, Natur,, knew about 'dile
lonie heron. men ever thought of it.
l the iron that is found in suilid-lo.
onantiii...s and in (L:.;•estible form in
cmrtain intittral foo'1s. lionoy is one
ee teee.., end it ts dill-1,1dt to innig-
ne. a more pleiteant metheti of etie.
e/Yleg the holey with iron time !,y
ti ii 11011,T. Plents are able te
feed neon the minerals in the sor.,
Int man has a more delicate digee-
tive apparatus and cannot resort te
iamb first-hand mr4botis for supply-
ing. his mineral requirements. The
n.,ctar which is distilital by the flow-
Iers of caltain plants is comparativojt.
rieb in iron; this in turn is gatheetel
1 up by th, . bee.; end in the hive it i3
changed into honey, The darker hon-
eys are, cis a rule, richer in iron,' °1 -
though all honey can supply it in
suffieient quantities: for ordinary
health purposes. .
"Honey is an inexhaustible iron
mine," eays. the French writer, Alin
Caiilas, in his book "The Treasures
in a Drop of Honey." "Iron, so use
ful to plants, has filtered into the
nector, then into the honey by the aid
of the bee. It is there usually in com-
binations of phosphates, in a very
soluble. easily digestible, easily as-
similable form. It supplies the des-
sert required by our iron -hungry
system, an excellent rebuilder of
physically and nervously run-down
organs."
VARIETIES OF CORN MOST
SUITABLE FOR GRAIN
Varieties of corn most suitable for
grain in any district are those that
will just reach maturity in a normal
season: Maturity is the first essen-
tial consideration inu selecting a var-
iety for grain purposes, whether it
be grown for seed or feed. It is ob-
viously useless to attempt to grow
the same varieties of corn for grain
in Eastern Ontario and Quebec as
can be grown in South-western On-
tario. Thus the selection of a suit-
able variety is governed largely by
the seasonal conditions of the district.
In South-western Ontario these
conditions permit of the dent var-
ieties such as Learning, Wisconsin 7,
Bailey, Golden Glow and White Cap
Yellow dent being grown successfully
as these will mature in an average
season. The later flints such as
Selzer's North Dakota, Compton's
Early, Longfellow and Gold Nugget
are suitable for those parts of this
district where the season becomes
a little cooler and shorter. How-
ever, ne mere choice of a variety
is not sufficient, as most varieties of
corn are composed of a number of
strains, the result of cross-fertiliza-
tion which normally takes place in
corn. • . .
In the experiments conducted with
corn at the Dominion Experimental
Station, Harrow, Ontario, it has been
found that some strains of Learning
and Wisconsin 7 required from sev-
en to ten days longer to mature than
others, This shows that in the same
district one strain of a particular
variety may be suitable while another
may prove unsuitable. Farmers
should secure seed from a known
source each year.
In general for Eastern Ontario
and the southerly portions of the
province of Quebec, early varieties
such as Twitchell's Pride, Quebec 28,
Canada Yellow and early strains of
North Western Dent aro likely to be
the most productive for grain pro-
duction,
PRICE TOO HIGH
In the matter of price, automobiles
are still a luxury in Canada, and a
good car is too much of a luxury fen:
the average man. /t is different,
however, in the United States where
en ordinary mechanic or clerk can
sport a car which only the class in
Canada who pay it high income tax
can afford. I had reason to price a
sedan in Ogdensburg last summer
arid found the price was $1,425 while
the same car sold in Prescott for up,
weeds of $2,500. In this matter
there is something to remember.
Cars are no longer a luxury, they
have become a riecessity far mese
than a horse and buggy -and the
time has come when these must bo
sold at the lowest possible price,
There is another thing to remember
and that is, practically all of the
automobile manufacturers in Canada
are subsidiary American companies,
and while they may be entitled 10 a
certain amount of protection, still
there it aio very good res.son why
their Canadian busineer should pay
them any better than their Ameri-
can, alia it must pay it mighty 'sight
more, In this connection it Might
be possible to reduce or entirely re-
move the nab e lax, which WOLIN in`
curthir reduction in price. At all
events the price of a good vox is too
laieh in Conada.-Pimbrolte Stan-
dard.
long Corr has tun
Name as Perfect het
Deetor Learning Carr, minleter
wi 1.:11 e portfolio in the Ontario goy.
,,timit and tnettaw) of thr tegie-
1-1,0ore fol Enut HismiItnn, is by
ith rare of a kindly diepoeirion, itt
',von he would be am [wised In learn
of the glowing eneaminut recen
DR. LEEMING CARR
paid him by one of his youthful ad-
mirees. It should be explained that
his Hamilton office is located on a
corner and that ail the boys in the
neighborhood delight tn congregate
on hi -;front 1 isvil steps,-whicb,
naturadr, is a habit not airwave ap-
proved of by the doctor, Recently.
he took occasion to give is couple nf
the rffenders a very kentle hint as
to his attitude in the matter. The
incident ca' best be described by
quotit g the weeds which one of the
boye used in telling his znother later
alum t what occurred.
"Yon know Dr. Oarr, mother ?", be
"Web, he's an awfully kind man.
Why, the other day, Whitney and 1
were sitting on his steps when he
came out of the office and he said,
naVouldn't you boys like a. chair ?"
Bur. I just said,"No thank you,
doctor, we are alright here,"
PERTH COONCIL OPPOSES
TOWNSHIP SCHOOL BOARD
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Stratfold, Jan. 29 -Perth County
Council, in session here this after-
noon, went on record as being oppos-
ed to the Government plan to in-
stitnte Township Boards of Trustees
by public vote, replacing the present
School Trustee system. The Govern-
mene will also be memorialized witb
respect to the cost of caring for in-
digent patients in sanitariums. The
Council feels that this could be cared
for by Provincial legislation instead
of any one municipality being sad-
dled with the high cost of mainte-
nance.
BRUCE COUNTY
Tsiswater Agricultural Society will
build a new hall this year.
Harmer Einmerton, the well-known
milkman, Lake Shore South, Kin-
cardine, while engaged in milking,
was kicked by a cow. It is feared
that he has some of his vibe fractured.
He is laid up in bed for the present,
Tiverton Agricultural Society held
their annual meeting on Tuesday of
teat week, The report read was very
on
owae;
satisfactory, showing a balance of
weatherwbout3despitep825;evaien e
l the
last year.
PERTH COUNTY
Stratford lite loss is lowest since
1920. Only 87,170 dollars damage was
done in 1925.
J. J. Dalrymple. Stratford, has re-
ceived frone the Ontario society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals
COmmiSS1011 as inspector for Strut -
and dis trio t.
The annual meeting of the Bien -
shard Municipal Telephone Co. pas-
sed off quietly on Wednesday after-
noon, about one hundred of the sub-
scribers being present. The three
commissioners, Dr. Comphill, Sidney
Adamson and Samuel Tuft, were te-
elected.
Two teams have been engaged ail
week drawing ice to the Avonbank
Cheese & Butter factory front Trout
Creek. Of late, the ice on the Avon
River near the factory, is so polluted
frona the Stratford sewage overflow
that the water is unfit for &monde to
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New Police Posts in North.
Three new posts in Northern On-
tario, have been established by the
Provincial police, these being at Red
Lake, in the northern part o/ Renora
district; Islapuskasing, and Gogama,
in Sudbury district, At each of these
places a constable will be stationed,.
Errors in Newspapers.
The Toronto Daily Star in replying
te a 811.1dC111 says --You bad better
staid your criticism to the newspaper
in which the errors in grannnar ap-
peared, it is easyof course, to find
mistakes at your leisute in another
man's production, but quite another
thing' to turn out a high degree of ac
curacy and precision in the haste or
newspaper work. The newspaper
writer is not like the banker or the.
business num, whose blunders are
confined to the few persons coneern-
ed; he is like the actor on the stage
whose slightest slip is manifest to
those persons in the audience who
maintain that if they were in his place
they would not make such a slip. Tho
errors that a newspaper writes makes
are usually as apparent to himself os
to his eritics, but frequently he doer
not detect them until t is too late
to correct, them. /f sante Of his Milo,
were in his place a few Ann they
might get their eyes opened.